Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists

[Samy Mezani <samy.mezani@wanadoo.fr>]

Your device seems wrong and yaboot can't be started by openfirmware.
For example, in mine yaboot.conf :
device=/pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/disk@0:
Have you try "sudo ybin -v" in terminal ?

Samy

Steven DuBois a écrit :
> I mailed this list a couple weeks ago about yaboot returning to a grey 
> screen when I try to boot both OS X and Linux. Well, the problem is 
> still there and I have been trying to fix it for a long time now. This 
> is my yaboot.conf
>
> boot=/dev/sdb2
> device=/disk@0:
> partition=4
> root=/dev/sdb4
> timeout=100
> install=/usr/lib/yaboot
> magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
> enablecdboot
> macosx=/dev/sdb3
>
> image=/boot/vmlinux
> label=Linux
> read-only
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
>
> image=/boot/vimlinux.old
> label=old
> read-only
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old
>
> I asked in #debianppc and no one was able to figure out what is wrong, 
> and the Forums were not of much help either 
> (http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=27402)

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