Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists
Please, Steven, don't top-post.
On Jun 09 2008, Steven DuBois wrote:
> ofpath just shows a colon and sdb# after /disk@0: (ofpath /dev/sdb2
> shows /disk@0:2)
Great that now you are not mounting the disk anymore. :-)
> mac-fdisk /dev/sdb shows the following
> /dev/sdb
> # type name length base ( size ) sytem
> /dev/sdb1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
> /dev/sdb2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 1954 @ 64 (977.0k) NewWorld bootblock
> /dev/sdb3 Apple_HFS Untitled 304968688 @ 15204352 (145.4G) HFS
> /dev/sdb4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 14445313 @ 2018 ( 6.9G) Linux native
> /dev/sdb5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 757021 @ 14447331 (369.6M) Linux swap
> /dev/sdb6 Apple_Free Extra 16 @ 320173040 ( 8.0k) Free space
>
> So i chanaged yaboot.conf to say device=/disk@0:2 and i tried :4, but
> neither worke
I think that the device has to omit the last part (after the colon), as,
if I understand things correctly, the first bootable partition (which
should be the one that ybin manipulates) is used.
Just a quick check here: you are using ybin after performing changes to
yaboot? I don't think that this is strictly necessary, but it doesn't
hurt to do (as root) "ybin -v". :-)
Unfortunately, if you are booting with an live disk, the names of the
partitions may have changed... :-(
Anyway, you can probably, once booted with the live disk, see the open
firmware tree under /proc and discover there the name to which disk is
an alias.
Anyway #2, booting into open firmware and issuing a devalias would be a
good thing.
Regards, Rogério Brito.
P.S.: I just got this thread in the middle. What *precisely* is your
problem?
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