On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Raymond Born wrote: > How do I manually install yaboot without being able to see that drive > from OSX? Can I see it from OS9 or some other means?
I'm not sure what you mean about seeing that drive? Do you mean seeing a Linux partition or a yaboot bootstrap partition? It's seems to be a catch 22 with powerpc Linux. You are better off making the bootstrap partition with mac-fdisk, but you can't use mac-fdisk util you can boot Linux. > > I have extensive overall computer knowledge in both windows and macos > environments since the PCAT and Apple IIe. I have no Linux experience > at all. Well GNU/Linux is a lot like UNIX, but there is a lot of hardware and kernel specific information. > > Please help. 35-40 hours and nothing but a white screen at startup. > I have been having trouble with my bootstrap partition as well. It seems I get yaboot on the bootstrap partition working but then it gets disabled by something. I have noticed this since I upgraded to Jaguar. However, I have a backup yaboot/yaboot conf, and a few Linux kernels on my OS 9 Partition. When yaboot on the bootstrap stops working I can go into Openfirmware and boot using my backup yaboot. I use a command something like this: boot /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATTO,[EMAIL PROTECTED]@6:8,yaboot The other thing good to have is a rescue ramdisk image on your OS 9 partition with a corresponding option in the yaboot.conf Not sure I've helped at all. Can anyone point me to some infomation on what Jaguar has done to my system? It won't boot a Debian CDROM (or even an OS 9 CDROM) when I hold down the "C" key during boot. Fred
