Re: Powermac G5 yaboot install failed

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamalprasad@verizon.net>]

>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com> writes:

    Ken> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, john fisher wrote:
    >>  boot:
    >> device=ht@0,f2000000/pci@5/k2-sata-root@c/k2-sata@)/disk@0:4,/boot/vmlinux

    Ken> John, forgive me if this is a stupid question -

    Ken>   the kernel you want to use is /boot/vmlinux mounted on
    Ken> /dev/sda4 ?  (you say ydl pointed to this, which makes me
    Ken> wonder if you are using a different partition for debian).

I'm not John but I can tell you that he probably did not want
/dev/sda4. I sent him the path as an example with the warning that it
would not match hist disk partitions and so on. Stupid me, I forgot
emphasize the need to customize it by replacing the '4' with what he
needed. I use /dev/sda4 as a small test partition that I can boot or
chroot into.

    Ken>   If you do mean /dev/sda4, what does 'ofpath /dev/sda4' tell
    Ken> you ?

Probably a warning to use bootx if my experience is anything to go
by. yaboot from sid really needs to get into etch to support us SATA
users.... 

Cheers!
Shyamal