To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Cc: Bcc: Subject: Re: ibook didn't detect hard drive Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 02:12:47PM -0800, Mike Power wrote: > So the new kernel did the trick. But I have a new problem. When the > installer went to make the hard disk bootable, it failed. I switched to > the instalation shell and started trying to do it by hand. > > This is partially solved so the following information might not be exact. > > I use the command yabootconfig -t target > I get an error about /dev/hdc is an invalid device. > > After googling around for a solution I found out that yabootconfig and > ofpath do not seem to like it when the cdrom and hard drive are > reversed. I think the guys said something about the cdrom being on hd > and the hard drive being on ide0. They also said that the newer yaboot > software didn't have difficulty with this arrangement. > > At this point I realized that the debian howto said the yaboot that came > on the cd was old, so I assumed that the yaboot on root.bin is also old > so I decided to update it with all new files. So I copied the files > > ofpath > mkofboot > > to /usr/sbin Which version did you get for your new copy? yaboot 1.3.10? 11? > At this point I run yabootconfig and get back an error mktemp not > found. So I copy make temp from the installation under /target and put > it into /bin. > > At this point I ran into another problem that just blows my mind. I > decided not to solve it but simply go around. The jist of the problem, > when I copy yabootconfig to /usr/sbin/yabootconfig it also writes over > /usr/sbin/mkofboot and visa versa. This results with the files > yabootconfig and mkofboot having the same contents. I have no clue why > this happens, I just decided to copy yabootconfig into /usr/sbin and > mkofboot into /bin which is higher up in the $PATH. I think you must be referring to ybin, not yabootconfig. mkofboot is in fact simply a symlink to ybin, which recognizes what to do by the name it was called with. yabootconfig is separate, and calls ybin/mkofboot after writing a standard yaboot.conf. > At this point running yabootconfig prints the error > mkofboot: hfsutils is not installed or cannot be found > mkofboot: Try --mount if Linux 2.4.20-ben5 supports HFS The kernel you have probably doesn't have HFS support compiled in. You can remedy this if the module is present, using insmod hfs > At this point I stopped, have I gone down the wrong path by overwriting > the yabootconfig and mkofboot files. I am worried that these particular > files my have requirements that don't suite well fpr instalation, like > dynamic linking and such. Is there an installation version of yaboot > that doesn't have these requirements? Or maybe all these problems are > really some other problem the I have created or missed. These are shell scripts, no problems with linking. Check your /etc/yaboot.conf to see if it makes sense. If not, just fix it manually, then use mkofboot rather than yabootconfig. Also be sure to copy your working /etc/yaboot.conf to /target/etc/yaboot.conf for your future workign system. You can use mkofboot with the -b option to tell it exactly where your bootstrap partition is. That should avoid any worries with the drive letters. If mkofboot doesn't complain, you should be in good shape. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
