On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:27:19PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > >On my G4 I had trouble with the woody version of yaboot. Ethan Benson > >suggested using the latest verion from: > >http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/yaboot-howto.shtml > >I know you had it working before and this is not really an answer but it > >may get you there nonetheless. Reconfiguring your existing yaboot may > >also do the trick. > > I'll look at that after I get this system going again. Thanks. > > ummm about reconfiguring yaboot?? How does one do that when you are in a > shell from booting from an install CD? I have booted from a CD and have > mounted my system with "mount /dev/hda11 /mnt" so I can now see and > probably edit /etc/yaboot.conf > Then I gather you run ybin but what parameters to give to ybin to tell > it to install to /dev/hda??? > Normally I would just run ybin from a normally booted system. > (I dont have a man ybin on the CD booted system)
The best way is to execute in a chroot. First modify /target/etc/yaboot.conf if needed. Then chroot /target /bin/bash mount -t proc proc /proc ybin -v exit -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
