I had something similar happen to me with my pismo powerbook at one
point. I think I ended up reinstalling yaboot cleanly with an older
version. I never investigated or had enough knowledge to figure out the
actual cause, but I think it may have be a corrupted file or something.
Maybe try pulling yaboot from the testing release using apt-get. Or
compile yaboot and install from scratch.
Just a suggestion. Someone else probably has a much better anwser.
Regards,
Pat
Clive Menzies wrote:
Hi
I've read Chris's excellent HOWTO on Booting with Yaboot on PowerPC and
the penguinppc.org mac-fdisk doc. Have created and reordered the
Apple-Bootstrap partition to /dev/hda2. I can OF boot Linux and can get
into OSX by holding down Option key during start-up. But I am having
trouble getting Yaboot to work properly.
OSX 10.2 was installed over OS 9,2 on the same HFS partition (/dev/hda10).
Partition Map /dev/hda1
Apple_bootstrap /dev/hda2
Apple_Driver 43 /dev/hda3
Apple_Driver 43 /dev/hda4
Apple_Driver_ATA /dev/hda5
Apple_Driver_ATA /dev/hda6
Apple_FWDriver /dev/hda7
Apple_Driver_IOKit /dev/hda8
Apple_patches /dev/hda9
Apple HFS /dev/hda10 MacOSX/OS9
Apple_Unix /dev/hda11 / (root)
Apple_Unix /dev/hda12 swap
Apple_Unix /dev/hda13 /usr
Apple_Unix /dev/hda14 /var
Apple_Unix /dev/hda15/tmp
Apple_Unix /dev/hda 16 /home
Apple_free Apple_Unix /dev/hda17
yaboot.conf contains:
macosx=hd:10 (I also tried macos=hd:10)
I've run ybin after changes
But straight booting sticks on something like "Starting bootstrap second
stage ...." and just stops. If I reboot into OF and type "boot
hd:2,yaboot", Linux boots fine (I used the sample yaboot.conf from 6.5
Kernel Image settings).
I don't really want to repartition (too much important stuff on MacOSX
to lose). Am I missing something obvious?
TIA
Regards
Clive
