On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Mark Benson <md.ben...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> As a matter of interest what did you do to get yaboot up and running? If I >> am remembering correctly I had to open a virtual console at the end of the >> installation and type dd if=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot of=/dev/sda1 to copy >> yaboot to the PReP partition. > > That's the method that's supposed to work. I never actually got that far. > > I installed Crux, which has instructions (that work, shock horror!!) to > install it by hand. I screwed uop when I was installing CruxPPC because x86 > force of habit made me add a /boot partition and apparently that's not a good > idea!. I then booted the Debian 6.0.3 DVD, wiped out all the partitions > except the PReP partition and installed Debian, skipping the bootloader phase > when it borked on the Apple_Bootstrap partition error. I then popped into a > terminal, copied the /cdrom/etc/yaboot.conf over, chroot'd to my new system > partition and hacked the yaboot.conf about to get a usable yaboot.conf using > the full kernel and initrd images in / . Worked after a few aborted attempts > while I learned my yaboot syntax. Seriously long-winded though! :) > CRUXPPC handbook is enough detailed but, indeed, the Gentoo PPC64 handbook (10. Configuring the Bootloader) provides a very good section about yaboot.conf settings. cheers, Nello -- my blog: http://linuxpowerpc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CABMX=WzGupRk9r=nvnnmnhskzh_j_wwbrtmnbzafhfk4pdm...@mail.gmail.com
