"mmissett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying (on a G4) to get the INSTALLED system to boot from a CD, > without much luck. First, could anybody out there tell me if what > I'm trying to do is possible [...]
It is possible. > I can get yaboot up from the distribution CD, stop it at the boot > prompt (so it doesn't run the installer, the system being already > installed), but nothing seems to work from there, all I get is a > message about bad (or wrong, I forget) partition, try again... (In > fact it gives me that partition message even BEFORE the boot > prompt.) Apparently that error is harmless, so you should just ignore it. > The system is installed on an external SCSI drive with no BIOS on > the card, so I can't boot from that drive and would like to boot > from CD if I can. In fact, I would like to create a boot/rescue CD > if I could so I don't have to use the install CD forever, but I > haven't gotten any attempt at that to work yet either. Any advice > about any or all of this would be most appreciated. Does typing 'linux root=/dev/sda1' at yaboot do the trick? Replace /dev/sda1 with your real root device and partition.
