can't be done with potato's yaboot, its manual image loading is broken. On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 04:26:28PM -0400, mmissett wrote: > > 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 and second, > how do I do it/what am I doing wrong? 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.) > 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. > Mike Missett > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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