Ethan, Thanks for the message, I really appreciate it Your answer raises a further question, if you don't mind: Can I get a different version of yaboot that will work? Ideally via download and burning it to a CD that will boot, but if that can't be made to work then in some other fashion. I would be most grateful for any suggestions. Mike
Ethan Benson wrote: > 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, wit= hout much luck. First, could anybody out there tell me if what I=92m tryin= g to do is possible and second, >> how do I do it/what am I doing wrong? I can get yaboot up from the dist= ribution CD, stop it at the boot prompt (so it doesn=92t 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 agai= n... (In fact it gives me that partition message even BEFORE the boot prom= pt.) The system is installed on an external SCSI drive with no BIOS on the= card, so I can=92t 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 d= on=92t have to use the install CD forever, but I haven=92t gotten any attem= pt at that to work yet either. Any advice about any or all of this would b= e most appreciated. >> Mike Missett
