On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 08:52:28AM -0600, pohl wrote: > > > > if you get a boot: prompt you can enter the command: > > > > hd:<linuxroot>,/boot/vmlinux-2.2.14 > > Thank you, I hadn't realized that I was returning to a > yaboot prompt after the -2 error code. I wasn't watching > closely enough, and thought it was an OF prompt. I'll > give this a whirl. > > Is there syntax for pointing to an installation image too?
no, there is no way to load a ramdisk image via the yaboot command line. it has to be done with a .conf file. > > > > boot hd:9,\\:tbxi > > > > ah ha, this won't work unless A) the file acutally has file > > type tbxi AND B) the root directory is blessed, AND C) > > the file is a CHRP script. > > This must be the case, then, because it worked for me. I > don't think I was very clear in this paragarph. You see, > I'm trying to yaboot a kernel that's on an HFS partition > (never did the linux installation, only the partitioning) > and used the above to test to see if slice 9 was the right > slice to find yaboot_0.5 on. remember that for some reason i cannot fathom the partition table is considered a partition too.. /dev/hda1 is always the partition table for Apple partitioned disks. > I would love it if you could send me a binary that I could try. > I did find a friend last night with a ppc machine that I > used to try to build my own, but I'm getting the same failure > to find yaboot_0.5 -- on an HFS partition, recall. i'll send that in a seperate mail. > I used Lynx to download the binary from Ben's page, so > I'm confident that it wasn't the browser mangling the file > in any way. > hmm strange.. > -- Ethan Benson
