On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 16:52 -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Pedro> I installed Debian in a second hard drive. Did I miss > Pedro> something during the install? > > Well, sounds like you got past the first problem which was that you > were using the RC2 installer (which does not boot). > Yes, the new installer works just well.
> I would guess everything is working correctly actually. But I'm > guessing ;-) > > My guess is you partitioned the second disk only. So I'm guessing you > put the Apple_Bootstrap partition on the second disk. So the installer > put yaboot on the second disk (on that boostrap parition). Pretty > natural to me too. > This is correct. I don't want to touch the OS X hard drive so I didn't bother initializing it. > When you boot the machine the Firmware boots from the first bootstrap > partition and loads Mac OS X. If you tell it too boot off the second > disk it loads yaboot correctly (and if you boot with 'l' you should > get Linux). > Almost right. "tell it to boot off the second disk..." I imagine that's what I do when I click the Linux icon in the graphical boot menu, correct? I assume the little text boot menu that follows is actually coming from yaboot. The problem is, that after I press "l" the machine doesn't boot Linux, instead, it sends me back to the graphical boot menu. I haven't found a way to get out of this loop. Note that pressing "x" in the text menu *does* boot OSX without problems. I wonder then why is it that "l" doesn't boot Linux. > The install guide clearly says the bootstrap partition must go > *before* the Mac OS X partition (because of the way Mac OS 'blesses' > partitions). If you put it on the second drive then that is the only > way it can work? > I'd be happy if this menu thing would work. I wouldn't mind going through it to boot Linux because I will spend little time, if any, in OSX. But the menu stuff doesn't work :( > Having said all that: what do you want it to do? The firmware is the > firmware is the firmware.....the only way to work around it is put the > yaboot bootstrap partition on disk 1 before the Mac OS X partition ;-) > Hmm, I'm just thinking, would swapping the hard drives work? What if the Linux disk is now sda and the OSX disk is sdb? I guess I can give it a try. > Cheers! > Shyamal > > PS: Looks like you do this stuff at work, and I do it after work, so > we exchange messages a day apart ;-) > Thanks, help is always welcome and I'm in no hurry to get this going. This thread will provide good feedback for future installers in my situation. -- Pedro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
