On Tue, Mar 14, 2000, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>this i do not understand, i have exuceted yaboot 0.5 from the first
>second 5th 9th etc parttions and it works fine, i think you might have
>found a new yaboot bug... your using G4 firmware right? perhaps it has
>differently obfusacted
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:41:48PM -0600, pohl wrote:
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> Ethan wrote:
> >
> > the bootstrap partition will not inerfere with yaboot on the hfs
> > partition, you just need to boot into OF and run the following
> > command:
> >
> > boot hd:X,yaboot
>
> For me, yaboot_0.4 cannot find its config fi
Ethan wrote:
>
> the bootstrap partition will not inerfere with yaboot on the hfs
> partition, you just need to boot into OF and run the following
> command:
>
> boot hd:X,yaboot
For me, yaboot_0.4 cannot find its config file in this situation,
and yaboot_0.5 can't even be executed successfully b
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 08:48:15PM -0600, pohl wrote:
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> Configuring ybin can't happen unless I can manage to get the
> ybin stuff on my linux partition immediately after installation,
> before the first reboot, because if the box goes down, I can no
> longer boot into linux (with the HFS parti
Ethan wrote:
>
> OK, I got annoyed enough to go test this, and i plan to write a
> simple howto for partitioning (you're all in trouble now im annoyed
> enough to write docs!)
Thank you for spelling this all out for me. I'm sorry that I haven't
given you any feedback on this until now. I'm in t
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 12:28:13PM -0600, pohl wrote:
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> Ethan wrote:
> >
> > not unfortunately, yaboot is more robust and reliable. just create a
> > 800K bootstrap partition at the front of your disk to hold it after
> > the install, and use my ybin utilites to manage it. just as easy as
> > l
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 12:28:13PM -0600, pohl wrote:
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> Ethan wrote:
> >
> > not unfortunately, yaboot is more robust and reliable. just create a
> > 800K bootstrap partition at the front of your disk to hold it after
> > the install, and use my ybin utilites to manage it. just as easy as
> > l
Ethan wrote:
>
> not unfortunately, yaboot is more robust and reliable. just create a
> 800K bootstrap partition at the front of your disk to hold it after
> the install, and use my ybin utilites to manage it. just as easy as
> lilo. (in mac-fdisk use the C command and create the bootstrap
> part
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 10:20:23AM -0500, Todd Shrider wrote:
> Thanks!
>
> I found most of the stuff you pointed out. I also found a doc at:
>
> http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jonh/lppc-serve/cache/572.html
>
> that shows how to bootstrap a system from a ydl or linuxppc.com port.
>
> Unfortunately
Thanks!
I found most of the stuff you pointed out. I also found a doc at:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jonh/lppc-serve/cache/572.html
that shows how to bootstrap a system from a ydl or linuxppc.com port.
Unfortunately (?) I have a new IMac DV and BootX doesn't work, I have to use
yaboot. I've foun
On Sunday 5 March 2000, at 9 h 27, the keyboard of Todd Shrider
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm pretty familiar with Linux, but very new to the powerpc world. I
> just a got and IMAC DV special edition and was hoping to install debian
> on it, but, we I haven't found any sort of usefull docuemen
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