At 20:33 28/07/2003 -0700, you wrote:
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.
I followed your instructions and installed
1. the new benh-kernel I found at
http://ppckernel.org/benh-devel/linux-benh-devel-2.4.21-ben2.tar.gz
2. yaboot 1.3.10
It makes quite a difference:
1. "Make system bootable" works (so does "chroot /target ybin -v")
2. now my harddisk is now known as hda
The generated /etc/yaboot.conf by "make system bootable" is:
"boot=/dev/hda2
device=hd:
partition=3
root=/dev/hda3
timeout=30
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
image=/vmlinux
label=Linux
read-only"
I still can't boot Debian.
When I try "boot hd:2,yaboot" and wait for the default-choice "Linux",
booting starts, but stops with the error
"VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or 03:03
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03
<0>Rebooting in 180 seconds.."
So, I tried to edit my 'ideal' yaboot.conf on my Mac OS X partition:
"default=Debian
defaultos=linux
boot=/dev/hda2
device=hd:
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
enablecdboot
macosx=hd:5
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
ofboot=hd:2
delay=10
timeout=100
image=/vmlinux
label=Debian
partition=3
root=/dev/hda3
append="hda=ide-scsi"
read-only"
image=/linux.bin
label=install
initrd=/root.bin
initrd-size=8192
append="disksize=2.88""
When I try "boot hd:5,yaboot" and choose "Debian" booting starts, but ends
with the same error.
FYI
My partition table is:
/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @
1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @
64 (800.0k) NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 57554944 @ 1664 (
27.4G) Linux native
/dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1048576 @ 57556608
(512.0M) Linux swap
/dev/hda5 Apple_HFS Mac OS X 58605048 @ 58605184 (
27.4G) HFS
/dev/hda6 Apple_Free 8
@ 117210232 ( 4.0k) Free space
What could be the reason for this error?
What to do next?
Wout
