Thanks guys. Shyamal, it just so happens that /dev/sda4 is correct for me too. On my box its the root though. I just didn't understand the rest of your directions, and I am not used to the Apple partition. So I am probably *still* misunderstanding.
Ken, I haven't tried "ofpath /dev/sda4" but it may be useful in a few minutes. what I am doing: d'oh ... I am loading a small YDL onto the second disk, so I can manipulate yaboot. I looked at the conf file and it makes sense ( unlike the OF notation). Then I will do an install of debian on the first disk, and see what all the file names are. Then I'll boot into YDL, fiddle the bootloader settings, and I hope get debian up. It better be smp... maybe. further advice most welcome. John > >>>>> "Ken" == Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ken> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, john fisher wrote: > >> boot: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED],f2000000/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL > PROTECTED]/k2-sata@)/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:4,/boot/vmlinux > > Ken> John, forgive me if this is a stupid question - > > Ken> the kernel you want to use is /boot/vmlinux mounted on > Ken> /dev/sda4 ? (you say ydl pointed to this, which makes me > Ken> wonder if you are using a different partition for debian). > > I'm not John but I can tell you that he probably did not want > /dev/sda4. I sent him the path as an example with the warning that it > would not match hist disk partitions and so on. Stupid me, I forgot > emphasize the need to customize it by replacing the '4' with what he > needed. I use /dev/sda4 as a small test partition that I can boot or > chroot into. > > Ken> If you do mean /dev/sda4, what does 'ofpath /dev/sda4' tell > Ken> you ? > > Probably a warning to use bootx if my experience is anything to go > by. yaboot from sid really needs to get into etch to support us SATA > users.... > > Cheers! > Shyamal -- John Fisher at Znyx Networks Santa Barbara office -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
