On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 04:26:11PM -0400, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > <continuing saga of me trying to boot Linux on my snakebite G4> > > I copied the yaboot binary, a Linux kernel and a yaboot.conf > to the root of my OS 9 partition. I tried to get to yaboot > using OF sd:7,yaboot but that just boots OS 9 again. > > After trying that a few times with variations and getting > nowhere. I thought I'd try booting yaboot off the Debian CD. > > I gave the command "boot cd:,\\yaboot" from OF and got > the boot: prompt from yaboot. At least that was something. > > Now I'm kind of stuck again because I have to give the correct > device and path to my kernel image. I can't figure out how > to construct the path. > > Note that there is a working Debian system on disk 2. I just > need to get it booted. > > This is the ATTO PCI SCSI card. > /[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > /ATTO,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > /sd > /ATTO,[EMAIL PROTECTED],1 > /sd > > This is how the boot-device for OS 9 is shown from OF: > boot-device > /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATTO,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@6:7,\\:tbxi hd:,\\:tbxi
devalias might show you a shorter way to type it, but it looks like you could put in boot /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATTO,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@6:7,yaboot Another option is to edit the yaboot.conf next to the yaboot you can boot, to set device=/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATTO,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@6: partition=7 root=/dev/sdb2 > > On my Linux disk my kernel image is in the root of /dev/sdb2 > > This what my two SCSI disks look like with pdisk: > > Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/scsi0.6' (/dev/sda) > #: type name length base ( size ) > 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 > 2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 54 @ 64 > 3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 74 @ 118 > 4: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 192 > 5: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 704 > 6: Apple_HFS "yaboot" 1782512 @ 1216 (870.4M) > 7: Apple_HFS "OS 9" 12291638 @ 1783728 ( 5.9G) > 8: Apple_HFS "X" 32183916 @ 14075366 ( 15.3G) > 9: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 A/UX Root 25052722 @ 46259282 ( 11.9G) > 10: Apple_Free 375336 @ 71312004 (183.3M) > > Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/scsi1.1' (/dev/sdb) > #: type name length base ( size ) > 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 > 2: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 usr 4194304 @ 64 ( 2.0G) > 3: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 export 12582912 @ 4194368 ( 6.0G) > 4: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1059388 @ 16777280 (517.3M) > > > Fred > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- *------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) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
