On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:50:59PM +0100, Hani Jabr wrote:
> Derrik Pates wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:31:33AM +0100, Hani Jabr wrote:
> > > I'm sorry. The distribution I am installing is the latest (potato?), and
> > > the
> > > problem I am having with getting it to boot is that I didn't create an
> > > 800K
> > > 'Apple_Bootstrap' partition. The documentation I read says to create it
> > > before
> > > the first Mac OS partition. This is for Yaboot. Is there an alternative
> > > that
> > > the documentation does not describe? Is there another way?
> >
> > Use the 'r' command in mac-fdisk to reorder the logical partition
> > ordering (the partition will be _physically_ after the MacOS partition,
> > but its entry will be before that of the MacOS partition). It doesn't
> > even strictly have to be before the MacOS partition, but that's for
> > convenience (if the XPRAM gets trashed, the yaboot partition will get
> > picked up first when the OpenFirmware does a bootable partition scan).
> >
> >
>
> OK, now I'm really confused. I've created the system such that the
> original os x/os
> 9 partition is untouched at number 10, reordered the bootstrap partition
> to number
> 9, the swap partition is 11 and the root partition is 12. I booted off
> the cd and
> ran
>
> mkofboot -o hd:12 --boot /dev/hda9 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root /dev/hda12
^^
9 in your case
> --partition 12
>
> I also ran ybin -v -b /dev/hda9 -i /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot, however that
> gave a "file
> not found" error. It did say that it had successfully completed,
> though, and it did
> change the firmware boot device to partition 9.
>
> I rebooted, looked at the partition, all ok. I told it to boot and it said
> "MAC-PARTS: Specified partition is not valid can't OPEN hd:9,tbxi"
>
> I also tried setting the boot device to hd:9,yaboot....
I'm guessing, is ofpath on your system? Does
# ofpath /dev/hda9 return a decent OF path?
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