On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 06:39:11PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > Hi all, > > on my alpb 15" I've installed Debian (with Ethan's XFS-image ;-)), > MacOSX and OpenBSD. The partitiontable is as follows: > > $ fdisk -l /dev/hda > > /dev/hda > # type name > /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple > /dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap > /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /boot > /dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 / > /dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap > /dev/hda6 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /usr > /dev/hda7 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /var > /dev/hda8 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /burn > /dev/hda9 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /working > /dev/hda10 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /source > /dev/hda11 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /tmp > /dev/hda12 Apple_HFS OSX > /dev/hda13 OpenBSD OpenBSD > > Block size=512, Number of Blocks=117210240 > DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 > > My yaboot.conf: > $ grep -v "^#" /etc/yaboot.conf > > x=/dev/hda12
what is this? there is no `x' option in yaboot. > bsd=/dev/hda13 > > boot=/dev/hda2 > device=hd: > partition=3 > root=/dev/hda4 > timeout=30 > install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot > magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot > fgcolor=black > bgcolor=yellow > > image=/vmlinux-2.6.4-rc2-aragorn > label=Debian3 > append:"idebus=66" this syntax is wrong, you need append= not append: > image=/vmlinux-2.4.23-newpmac > label=linux > read-only > > enablecdboot > > The OpenBSD root is on ?hda13:a? which is a HFS Partition. ofwboot last i checked OpenBSD used UFS as its primary filesystem, HFS will not work as a root filesystem for a UNIX type system. > I copied from the OpenBSD install-image to > /usr/local/lib/yaboot/ofwboot. Booting b gives an error-code 1: > > Any hints? the way the bsd= option works is the bsd bootloader is invoked with the OpenFirmware path to whatever your put after bsd= followed by ,/bsd which should be the kernel. im not sure how a bsd disklabel inside a normal partition is handled, OF won't have a real path to such a bsd slice in that manner. perhaps bsd makes up thier own fake one or something, i don't know. you can put your own OF path after bsd= and ybin will use that as is. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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