SOLVED: Re: yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-18 Thread Kent West
Chris Tillman wrote: On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 05:08:25PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Chris Tillman wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:27:30PM -0500, Kent West wrote: things relating to where hard drive is> Interesting things from "devalias": -- ide0/pci/@d/mac-io/[EMAIL

Re: yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-17 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 05:08:25PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Chris Tillman wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:27:30PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > things relating to where hard drive is> > > > >>Interesting things from "devalias": > >>-- > >> > >>ide0/pci/@d/mac-io/[EMAIL

Re: yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-17 Thread Kent West
Chris Tillman wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:27:30PM -0500, Kent West wrote: things relating to where hard drive is> Interesting things from "devalias": -- ide0/pci/@d/mac-io/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ide1 /pci/@d/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] hd /pci/@d/[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:27:30PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Chris Tillman wrote: > > >Your /target/etc/yaboot.conf should have something like > > > >boot=/dev/hde6 > >device=ide0: > >timeout=50 > >fgcolor=light-cyan > >install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot > >magicboot=/u

Re: yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-16 Thread Kent West
Chris Tillman wrote: Your /target/etc/yaboot.conf should have something like boot=/dev/hde6 device=ide0: timeout=50 fgcolor=light-cyan install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot macos=/dev/hde14 macosx=/dev/hde15 image=/vmlinux label=Linux read-only

Re: yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-16 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 05:02:51PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Chris Tillman wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:02:10PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > >>Chris Tillman wrote: > >> > >>>So you apparently have one of the dual-ide bus machines, and for some > >>>reason ide0 is your main hard drive rath

Re: yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-16 Thread Kent West
Chris Tillman wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:02:10PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Chris Tillman wrote: So you apparently have one of the dual-ide bus machines, and for some reason ide0 is your main hard drive rather than hd. Try creating the yaboot.conf from the earlier message in /target/etc

Re: yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-11 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 12:09:26PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >The cp was successful, but the "ybin -v" produced the same errors. It shouldn't have complained about the lack of a proc filesystem in the normal installer environment. > > So I started the installation over, and t

Re: yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-11 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Chris Tillman wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:02:10PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Then ybin complained quite a bit: /proc filesystem is not mounted; nvram will not be updated unable to find OpenFirmware path for boot=/dev/hde6 and similar message for other partitions. Do I

Re: yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-11 Thread Kent West
Chris Tillman wrote: On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:02:10PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Then ybin complained quite a bit: /proc filesystem is not mounted; nvram will not be updated unable to find OpenFirmware path for boot=/dev/hde6 and similar message for other partitions. Do I need to crack the ca

Re: yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-10 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:02:10PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Chris Tillman wrote: > >So you apparently have one of the dual-ide bus machines, and for some > >reason ide0 is your main hard drive rather than hd. > > > >Try creating the yaboot.conf from the earlier message in /target/etc/ > >and give

Re: yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-10 Thread Kent West
Chris Tillman wrote: So you apparently have one of the dual-ide bus machines, and for some reason ide0 is your main hard drive rather than hd. Try creating the yaboot.conf from the earlier message in /target/etc/ and give ybin a shot (in the chroot). > > Your /target/etc/yaboot.conf should hav

Re: yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-10 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:39:19AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > It's not there either. From what I've been able to figure out, > yabootconfig is a utility that creates yaboot.conf. Since yabootconfig > fails, yaboot.conf doesn't get created, which explains why it's missing. I'm sure you're righ

Re: yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-10 Thread Kent West
Chris Tillman wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 04:31:05PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I've been fighting to get Debian installed on a Blue & White G3 for several days, and after finally brute-forcing my way through the OpenFirmware prompt ("boot hd:x,yaboot" didn't work -- had to resort to "boot id

Re: yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-10 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 04:31:05PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I've been fighting to get Debian installed on a Blue & White G3 for > several days, and after finally brute-forcing my way through the > OpenFirmware prompt ("boot hd:x,yaboot" didn't work -- had to resort to > "boot ide0/@0:x") have m

Re: yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-09 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: However, at the "Make system bootable" stage, yabootconfig fails. So I popped into the second VT and ran "yabootconfig" manually. It failed also, reporting that it "Could not determine root partition, aborting". I looked for /etc/yaboot.conf, and the file does not exist. My

yabootconfig fails on B&W G3

2002-07-09 Thread Kent West
I've been fighting to get Debian installed on a Blue & White G3 for several days, and after finally brute-forcing my way through the OpenFirmware prompt ("boot hd:x,yaboot" didn't work -- had to resort to "boot ide0/@0:x") have made it through the installation. However, at the "Make system boo