Re: Yaboot won't boot OS X with Ubuntu/OS X dual boot Power Mac G5.
If you swap the physical location of your hard drives around so that
your primary drive is sitting in the secondary drive bay - do you
still experience problems?
When I was trying to install, Yaboot refused to boot into Debian
unless it's partition was located on the primary disk.
HTH,
Noah
On 1/24/06, Brian Durant <RoadTripDK@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> On 24. jan 2006, at 11.53, Charles Plessy wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:24:18AM +0100, Brian Durant wrote :
> >>
> >> boot=/dev/sda2
> >> root=/dev/sda3
> >>
> >> macosx=/dev/sdb3
> >
> > Did you check this one ? It seems that the person who started the
> > thread
> > had a problem similar to yours (although symmetric).
> >
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/02/msg00039.html
> >
> > --
> > Charles
>
> Hi Charles,
>
> Yes, I see your point. The thing is that still being newbieish to
> both Linux and OS X, I don't fully understand this. Here is what I know:
>
> 1) I can boot into the Ubuntu HD with both drives connected.
> 2) Holding down the command-option-o-f keys all together after
> pressing the power-on button does not bring up an OF prompt. If I
> choose "L" for the Ubuntu partition, it will show up before Ubuntu is
> booted.
> 3) I can't bring up the graphic OF interface. Do you know the key
> command combo? I thought it was just "o", but that didn't work.
> 4) I mounted my OS X partition under Ubuntu and simply couldn't find
> the kernel for some reason. I was looking on what is "sdb3" for me.
> 5) I have created and "mnt/hfs" folder in Ubuntu, I just don't
> remember how to get the partition (sdb3) to mount automatically.
>
> The first issue for me seems to be where the ?*#! is the kernel, but
> maybe I am going at this all wrong. The only other thing I can think
> of is when I do get an OF prompt, to try a string like: boot: sd:3,/
> vmlinux root=/dev/hda3 ro. That assumes that "sd" stands for a SATA
> drive in OF.
>
> Any ideas, please let me know because I haven't got a clue at this
> point. Is there a way I can do a command line search in OS X to find
> the kernel path?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
>
>
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