--- pohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > p.s. I'm using bootx, which is not recommended for > new-worlds, but I don't > > know what else to use, and i'm not at all sure > that that's the problem. > > This could account for it. I had to use yaboot when > installing > on my G4. > > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
"Once the installation was over with, getting yaboot written to its partition took some playing. There's a program called "ybin" that does this job for you. Incidentally, there's an alternate name under which you invoke "ybin", called "mkofboot". Invoking it this way causes the bootstrap partition to be freshly formatted (HFS). You have to do this the first time you run ybin. Running it this way also helps to make sure an old configuration is properly overwritten. There were a couple of deb packages that I needed that were NOT on the installation CD. You see, the ybin program needs to run a program called "nvsetenv" in order to make OpenFirmware boot off of the yaboot partition automagically -- but it needed to be a more recent version of nvsetenv than was in potato when it was released. You can get it by installing http://screaming.org/~pohl/powerpc-utils_1.1.3-2_powerpc.deb Someone else may have a more recent version. This was the one that got me going. " pohl's right with the instructions, follew them and u should be fine. if u dont have a zip disk, boot off the CD if u can. u dont need that 'nvsetenv' program to get your computers OF to boot into the yaboot's bootstrap partition though. either place the Apple_Bootstrap partition before the main MacOS partition (which means reformattin the whole disk unless u can move partitions around, im not sure if u can with mac-fdisk), or place the Apple_Bootstrap partition in the next available freespace, with at least 800k. then, after u run mkofboot, reboot into OF (Apple+Option+O+F) and type this at the OF's prompt 0> : setenv boot-device path-to-bootsrap-device:X, \\:tbxi replacing "path-to-bootstrap-device" with the device the bootstrap partition is on (hd for ur first ata harddrive, ultra1 for ur second) and replacing X with the partition number the bootstrap partition is. ex: setenv boot-device hd:9,\\:tbxi then type boot and it should work. for some reason, if your yaboot.conf file doesnt point to the correct place for your linux kernel, and u type in the place at the yaboot prompt manually, u get a kernel panic and it never boots. if that happens, boot with ur CD or zip, hmount the bootstrap partition, edit the yaboot.conf file urself, uhmount the partition, and reboot. settin the env in OF is how i got OF to use the bootstrap partition and not the macos partition.. but i think if u zap the pram it sets ur OF back to default. im not sure i havent done that yet. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? >From homework help to love advice, Yahoo! Experts has your answer. http://experts.yahoo.com/
