On Thursday 25 November 2004 12:21, Christoph Ewering wrote: > Just to let everybody know that got trapped with the same problem and > how to solve this problem: > Read: > http://www.penguinppc.org/bootloaders/yaboot/doc/yaboot-howto.shtml > Especially chapter 9. > > I solved the booting problem with jumping into OF and typing > boot ultra1:2,\\:yaboot and after yaboot loads I typed > "ultra1:3,/boot/vmlinuxtest root=/dev/hdb3 ro" and voila Linux boots
> :-) but crashes when I wants to load the xserver. Looks like the > > different G4s use different pci-addresses for the graphiccard :-( > > Now I will do the following: > Install Ext2FS-support for MacOS X, mount the linux-root-partition, > remove the links that start the xserver from /etc/rc2.d and restart. > Than I am going to fix the boot-problem with ybin and look for the > right pci-address. Ouch. Easy trick: "ultra1:3,/boot/vmlinuxtest root=/dev/hdb3 ro init=/bin/bash" voila, shell on boot, no start of X. Then you can edit what you need to edit :) David
