Clive Menzies wrote:
My G4 is at least a couple of years old (Sawtooth?) AGP Gigabit - so it
That's "Mystic", one revision newer than Sawtooth.
Segher
On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 03:23 pm, Chris Tillman wrote:
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:35:18AM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
[snip]
I have progress of sorts in that it will now boot into OSX (without
having to hold Option on start-up) but I still need OF (Cmd+Opt+O+F)
to
boot Linux. So
Jeroen Diederen wrote:
Did you guys know that OSX has to reside within the first 8 Gb of the
hard disk ?
That's odd. My OSX is at the 45th GigaByte or so. The Yellow Dog
install guide recommends that the OSX partition is the last on the disk.
Maybe the 8Gb limit is related to some older ve
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 08:52:32PM +, gimli wrote:
> > Did you guys know that OSX has to reside within the first 8 Gb of the
> > hard disk ?
>
> My OS X is past the first 15 GB of my drive and it works just fine...
The 8G limit only applies to older versions of Open Firmware that still
used a
> Did you guys know that OSX has to reside within the first 8 Gb of the
> hard disk ?
My OS X is past the first 15 GB of my drive and it works just fine...
Clive Menzies wrote:
On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 04:19 am, Chris Tillman wrote:
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 11:25:08PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
yaboot.conf:
boot=/dev/hda2 (where Apple_Bootstrap resides)
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
brokenosx (added as a suggested fix but makes n
--- Jeroen Diederen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> MacOS should be in the 1st 8 or 9 GB...
>
Huh?
My MacOS isn't until the 40th Gigabyte.
The apple driver partitions and Apple_bootstrap are
right at the beginning of the drive, though.
_
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:35:18AM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
> >
> >Try, first: ybin -v to see if any errors are reported.
> I ran "/usr/sbin/ybin -b /dev/hda2 -v" and was asked if I wanted to
> create an HFS partition. I first answered No and it aborted; so I ran
> it again answering Yes and
On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 04:19 am, Chris Tillman wrote:
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 11:25:08PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
yaboot.conf:
boot=/dev/hda2 (where Apple_Bootstrap resides)
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
brokenosx (added as a suggested fix but makes no difference)
macosx=hd:
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 11:25:08PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
> >Did you already post your yaboot.conf and /etc/fstab?
> This transcribed rather than cut and pasted and I've not included the
> comment lines
>
> yaboot.conf:
>
> boot=/dev/hda2 (where Apple_Bootstrap resides)
> magicboot=/usr/lib
On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 10:26 pm, Chris Tillman wrote:
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 03:13:39PM -0800, vinai wrote:
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Clive Menzies wrote:
Thanks for this. It raises a couple of questions:
1. In the yaboot HOWTO it recommends re-ordering the Apple_bootstrap
partiti
On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 11:13 pm, vinai wrote:
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Clive Menzies wrote:
Thanks for this. It raises a couple of questions:
1. In the yaboot HOWTO it recommends re-ordering the Apple_bootstrap
partition to 2 - yours is on 9 and presumably works OK. Why the
recomm
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 03:13:39PM -0800, vinai wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Clive Menzies wrote:
>
> > Thanks for this. It raises a couple of questions:
> > 1. In the yaboot HOWTO it recommends re-ordering the Apple_bootstrap
> > partition to 2 - yours is on 9 and presumably works OK. Why the
Clive Menzies wrote:
On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 06:32 pm, J Q Private wrote:
But I am
having trouble getting Yaboot to work properly.
OSX 10.2 was installed over OS 9,2 on the same HFS
partition
(/dev/hda10).
Partition Map /dev/hda1
Apple_bootstrap /dev/hda2
Apple_Driver 43 /dev/hda3
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Clive Menzies wrote:
> Thanks for this. It raises a couple of questions:
> 1.In the yaboot HOWTO it recommends re-ordering the Apple_bootstrap
> partition to 2 - yours is on 9 and presumably works OK. Why the
> recommendation?
I believe Ethan recommended to do it this wa
On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 06:32 pm, J Q Private wrote:
But I am
having trouble getting Yaboot to work properly.
OSX 10.2 was installed over OS 9,2 on the same HFS
partition
(/dev/hda10).
Partition Map /dev/hda1
Apple_bootstrap /dev/hda2
Apple_Driver 43 /dev/hda3
Apple_Driver 43 /dev/hda
> I've read Chris's excellent HOWTO on Booting with
> Yaboot on PowerPC and
> the penguinppc.org mac-fdisk doc. Have created and
> reordered the
> Apple-Bootstrap partition to /dev/hda2. I can OF
> boot Linux and can
> get into OSX by holding down Option key during
> start-up. But I am
> h
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 08:37 pm, Derrik Pates wrote:
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:42:21PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
Doesn't seem to help. I checked the man yaboot.conf page; it refers
to
HFS+ but my set-up is totally HFS.
No, if you're running OS X off of it, it's HFS+. OS X doesn
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:42:21PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
> Doesn't seem to help. I checked the man yaboot.conf page; it refers to
> HFS+ but my set-up is totally HFS.
No, if you're running OS X off of it, it's HFS+. OS X doesn't support
HFS as a boot volume. Did you try putting the option
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 02:50 am, Patrick Baltz wrote:
I had something similar happen to me with my pismo powerbook at one
point. I think I ended up reinstalling yaboot cleanly with an older
version. I never investigated or had enough knowledge to figure out
the actual cause, but I
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 03:05 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I've run ybin after changes
But straight booting sticks on something like "Starting bootstrap
second stage " and just stops. If I reboot into OF and type "boot
hd:2,yaboot",
Quoting Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I've run ybin after changes
>
> But straight booting sticks on something like "Starting bootstrap
> second stage " and just stops. If I reboot into OF and type "boot
>
> hd:2,yaboot", Linux boots fine (I used the sample yaboot.conf from 6.5
>
>
I had something similar happen to me with my pismo powerbook at one
point. I think I ended up reinstalling yaboot cleanly with an older
version. I never investigated or had enough knowledge to figure out the
actual cause, but I think it may have be a corrupted file or something.
Maybe try pu
Hi
I've read Chris's excellent HOWTO on Booting with Yaboot on PowerPC and
the penguinppc.org mac-fdisk doc. Have created and reordered the
Apple-Bootstrap partition to /dev/hda2. I can OF boot Linux and can
get into OSX by holding down Option key during start-up. But I am
having trouble g
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