Hello!
>
> then your yaboot.conf has something bogus in it.
yaboot.conf was:
boot=/dev/hda9
device=ultra0:
partition=11
delay=20
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
image=/vmlinux
label=linux
root=/dev/hda11
read-only
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
I think that must be ok?
>...or else your grep is very broken.
I bought the CD's as official Debian Binaries Potato 2.2r3, no other
Software in the game because it was at install from CD during the
ramdisk-phase (execute a shell ...), but probably grep is broken in
that release ... :-(
>
> > 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
I thought this too. The more I was surprised, and that's the reason I
mentioned it in my mail ;-)-
>
> > 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
No it _was_ on /dev/hdb ...
> boot-device only knows about the bootstrap partition NOT your root
> partition or anything else.
Yes ... (otherwise nobody needs yaboot and so on ;-) )
>
> that would mean your bootstrap partition has to be on the slave disk,
> not recommended, it doesn't work right generally.
That hits it, I think that was the circumstance I neglected ...
We've written a little bit crossfire, I apologize.
> i don't understand why are you intentionally obfuscating things and
> making life generally difficult.
That's a long story but I think it the simple explanation is:
1. I'm anesthesiologist with wired up brain with
2. no real Apple experience (how to get?!?) despite using them for
round 10 years and
3. just one year linux autodidactically at the countryside where I
work and live and with the lists help therefore a
big THANK YOU to all ;-)))
Cheers
--
mfg
Georg Koss
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