On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 05:00:16PM +0200, Wout Tankink wrote: > At 07:31 28/07/2003 -0700, you wrote: > >Did you replace yaboot with a newer version (>1.36, IIRC)? G4's > >need the newer version. There is a link to the latest version > >in the install manual. > > De version of yaboot in my OS X partition is 1.3.10. > But, the version of yaboot that is automatically downloaded at the > installation of Woody is only 1.3.6. > But, to my knowledge, I can only replace it after booting my installation > (which results in the error). > For that reason, I have also tried to boot yaboot from the OS X partition > with a yaboot.conf as automatically build by yabootconfig and ...it fails > > I also added macosx=/dev/hda5 to /target/etc/yaboot.conf (and 'ybinned' > it), but that fails with "Please wait. loading kernel... hd:5,macosx: > Unknown or corrupt filesystem" > > Wout
OK, you can copy the 1.3.10 yaboot onto your installer disk in place of the 1.3.6. However, you may not be able to mount the OS X partition, if it's an HFS Extended format. Do you have network access in the installer? If so, then after mounting your partitions and configuring the network, switch to console 2 or use the Execute a Shell menu item to: wget http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/yaboot-binary-1.3.10.tar.gz tar -xzf yaboot-binary-1.3.10.tar.gz mv usr/local/lib/yaboot/yaboot /target/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot (I'm not sure if the installer's tar has a z option; if not, substitute gunzip yaboot-binary-1.3.10.tar.gz tar -xf yaboot-binary-1.3.10.tar ) Alternatively, you could move your 1.3.10 yaboot binary somewhere that you could get to from the installer: an ftp server you have access to, or make an HFS partition you could put it on from within OS X. Then, after getting yaboot 1.3.10 snuggled into place, run the Make Hard Disk Bootable step again; that will copy the new version to the bootstrap partition and you should be set. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
