Well, now I get: MAC-PARTS: specified partition is not valid can't open hd:9,\\:tbxi ok
Any ideas? (tried running ybin -b /dev/hda9, still didn't work...) Thanks, Brian Dunnette On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 06:03:24AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 07:13:44PM -0500, Brian Dunnette wrote: > > Okay... so I've (supposedly) gotten Debian installed on my iBook, and did > > the > > voodoo with the bootstrap partition (mkofboot --boot /dev/hda9 -m > > /target/etc/ofboot.b --root /dev/hda11 --partition 11). When I try to do > > "boot hd:9" or "boot hd:9, yaboot", though, I get this message: > > is this potato r0 ? the /etc/ofboot.b is anchient crap. > > > MAC-PARTS: LOAD (noninterposed) not supportedload-size=0 adler32=1 > > LOAD-SIZE is too small > > you need to do a: > > boot hd:9,\\:tbxi > > potato r2 and later ybin configures OF corrrectly. in your case since > you did the partitioning right just reset your OpenFirmware > configuration to defaults and you will boot fine. > > command option p r from a cold boot. > > i highly recommend you upgrade your yaboot package to the one in r3 > immediatly though. let dpkg replace your /etc/yaboot.conf and reedit > it to match your system (teh bootloader files have moved). > > > Any idea why this is? Just for reference, here's my partitioning scheme: > > > > hda1-8: Apple stuff > > hda9: Apple_Bootstrap > > hda10: swap > > hda11: / > > hda12: MacOS > > looks ok. > > -- > Ethan Benson > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
