Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists
On Mon, Jun 09 2008, at 15:16 -0400, Steven DuBois wrote:
> ofpath just shows a colon and sdb# after /disk@0: (ofpath /dev/sdb2 shows /disk@0:2)
How does your yaboot.conf look like?
What error messages does the system give you when trying to boot?
Is there anything else you think might be helpful to know?
And just to be sure: I'd try to boot the machine with the openfirmware
commands as shown below. Especially 'devalias' seemed to be helpful. I
tried that yesterday on an old tibook.
Docs:
http://www.firmworks.com/
Good luck
Wolfgang
>
> 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
>
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 04:29:38AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 08 2008, at 22:44 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > > On Jun 08 2008, Gunther Furtado wrote:
> > > > Alternatively, you could try booting into openfirmware (Opt+Command+O+F
> > > > just after the shime) and issuing "dev / ls" and "devalias" to determine
> > > > the correct path to your disk.
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