If you swap the physical location of your hard drives around so that your primary drive is sitting in the secondary drive bay - do you still experience problems?
When I was trying to install, Yaboot refused to boot into Debian unless it's partition was located on the primary disk. HTH, Noah On 1/24/06, Brian Durant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 24. jan 2006, at 11.53, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:24:18AM +0100, Brian Durant wrote : > >> > >> boot=/dev/sda2 > >> root=/dev/sda3 > >> > >> macosx=/dev/sdb3 > > > > Did you check this one ? It seems that the person who started the > > thread > > had a problem similar to yours (although symmetric). > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/02/msg00039.html > > > > -- > > Charles > > Hi Charles, > > Yes, I see your point. The thing is that still being newbieish to > both Linux and OS X, I don't fully understand this. Here is what I know: > > 1) I can boot into the Ubuntu HD with both drives connected. > 2) Holding down the command-option-o-f keys all together after > pressing the power-on button does not bring up an OF prompt. If I > choose "L" for the Ubuntu partition, it will show up before Ubuntu is > booted. > 3) I can't bring up the graphic OF interface. Do you know the key > command combo? I thought it was just "o", but that didn't work. > 4) I mounted my OS X partition under Ubuntu and simply couldn't find > the kernel for some reason. I was looking on what is "sdb3" for me. > 5) I have created and "mnt/hfs" folder in Ubuntu, I just don't > remember how to get the partition (sdb3) to mount automatically. > > The first issue for me seems to be where the ?*#! is the kernel, but > maybe I am going at this all wrong. The only other thing I can think > of is when I do get an OF prompt, to try a string like: boot: sd:3,/ > vmlinux root=/dev/hda3 ro. That assumes that "sd" stands for a SATA > drive in OF. > > Any ideas, please let me know because I haven't got a clue at this > point. Is there a way I can do a command line search in OS X to find > the kernel path? > > Cheers, > > Brian > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman
