Re: rescue of install / booting from USB
Hi Frank!
good news.
On 1/3/19 8:13 AM, Frank Scheiner wrote:
Afterwards maybe check a hash (e.g. SHA256) of the file on both sender
and receiver to be sure it was transferred intact. When chrooted to
the actual installation, you should have hfsutils around (`/proc` and
`/sys` might need to be mounted). First - if it is mounted - unmount
the HFS partition with `umount`, then (pseudo)mount it again with
`hmount`, then use `hattrib -t tbxi -c UNIX yaboot`. Afterwards,
`humount` the HFS partition and try a reboot with the older yaboot
from disk.
I was able to transfer the yaboot of the debian 7.11 disk to the HFS
boot partition and thus boot the previously installed debian.
Strangely, I was unable to mount the HFS partition when using the
"shell", or, better, it always mounted read-only (I do wonder how the
installer is capable of installing Yaboot then).
However, mounting the target root and chrooting (proc, sys and dev need
to be mounted to be able to mount under the chrooted environment
succesfully).
Luckily, the installer image has a yaboot file in it in the installer
directory.
Voilà, I was able to boot and continue installation, upgrading and
installing and have again a working iBook.
I'm operative again!
I have a couple of issues though. This replacement I got is slightly
different than the old one I had: 14" vs 12", hardware is slightly
different (including the yaboot issue which did not happen on the 12")
Do we have a new reliable yaboot? I have the fear that at the next
upgrade and thus install of its package, the computer will halt again (I
made a back-up copy of the working yaboot file for safety)
I will describe these issues in separate mails to have clean threads!
I already started working again on ArcticFox... more to report on that too!
Riccardo
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