On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 10:58:50PM +0100, Dave Turner wrote: > and the final remark from Chris:- > >What's your /etc/yaboot.conf look like? > > If I knew where I might find the /etc/yaboot.conf and how to look at > it I would tell you what it looks like. > > I did a bit more fiddling about after writing the above. > If I use "boot hd:7,yaboot" from Open Firmware prompt to boot the > copy of yaboot on the Mac OS partition then yaboot opens up, > complains about being run from a Mac OS partition instead of the > bootstrap partition, then complains about the lack of yaboot.conf. > > So I rebooted into Mac OS and put yaboot.conf on there as well. > Back into Open Firmware and "boot hd:7,yaboot". > I get the same complaints about not being run from bootstrap and > yaboot.config complains about not being able to find stuff. It looks > as though the system really does want to find something on hd:2 = > 800K bootstrap but it is not there. > > The version of yaboot and yaboot.conf were those copied from the > Debian install CD. yaboot.conf is 4K dated May 16 2002. yaboot is > version 1.3.6 dated dec 13 2001.
OK, so you'll be able to boot the installer if you add a couple more files to your MacOS volume, namely root.bin and linux.bin from the CD. Then do the "boot hd:7,yaboot" and that will get you back in the installer. Somehow, I guess your bootstrap partition doesn't get set up with the yaboot file, yaboot.conf, and ofboot.b. You could verify this in the installer by switching to console 2 (Alt-F2), and mount -t hfs /dev/hda2 /mnt ls /mnt to see what's there. If mount gives you an error, then probably the partition wasn't even initialized. umount /mnt Switch back to the menu (Alt-F1), and run Make Hard Disk Bootable. then switch back to console 2 and repeat the mount, see if stuff is there now. If it's not, that is totally strange. Maybe you can get more information by running mkofboot manually: cp /target/etc/yaboot.conf /etc/yaboot.conf mkofboot -v -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
