On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:36:45AM +1000, Michael Lake wrote: > Chris Tillman wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:27:19PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote: > >>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 > > OK I have booted from CD1 and got myself a # shell. > mounted /dev/hda11 under /target and I was able to cat > /target/etc/yaboot.conf and all was fine with it. > Then followed the above. All worked OK. > (I liked the blessing) > > Rebooted the machine and at the boot: prompt hit 'l' for linux, it > enters the second boot stage then still starts the kernel and exits with > openpic exit. So the error is still the same. > > Can someone explain what the OSX upgrade might have done. I would have > thought that it would have just blown away the bootloader for linux and > so I would not have even got a boot: prompt - it would have just booted > straight into OSX. Yet I still have the first stage bootloader and it > points to my current perfectly fine kernel. Is there something that the > kernel needs to know from OpenFirmware that OSX upgrade changed? I cant > imagine theat the OSX upgrade would touch the kernel as that is on > /dev/hda11
No, at least I sure can't. The only thing I can think of is maybe it screwed up the filesystem on that partition; maybe e2fsck in the installer, before mounting it, might help. After that, try replacing the kernel with a backup? -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
