On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:04:55AM +0200, Georg Koss wrote: > Hello again! > > I did partitioning with mac-fdisk (woody) and reinstalled without > Apple-Drivers - it worked great =8-)). > > > > please let ybin take care of boot-device, it will do it correctly. > > I did with ybin-0.30 form potato's CD1.
i really recommend using the one from sid. the version in potato is known to have problems with recent OpenFirmare. > First trial: > Just typing ybin with a written yaboot.conf adapted to my ultra0 it > gave about 10-12 times "/etc/yaboot.conf: line too long". That was it :-( then your yaboot.conf has something bogus in it. or else your grep is very broken. > Second trial: > mkofboot -b /dev/hda2 -i /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot -m > /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root /dev/hda4 --partition 4 --device `ofpath > /dev/hda` this won't even use /etc/yaboot.conf > After that I was able to boot from graphical OF once when CD1 in > CD-RW, without that CD1 in the drive it failed again > > printenv boot-device gave: > hd:2,\\:tbxi hd:,\\:tbxi > > Default booting occures in ultra0:2 (potato) instead of ultra1:9 (woody). where is your bootstrap partition? its obviously /dev/hda so your boot-device is correct. boot-device only knows about the bootstrap partiiton NOT your root partition or anything else. > Is there any chance to get it default booting with ultra1:9 and beeing that would mean your bootstrap partition has to be on the slave disk, not recommended, it doesn't work right generally. > able to boot ultra0:2 from OF graphical (or perhaps any similar solution)? i don't understand why are you intentionally obfuscating things and making life generally difficult. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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