On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Ben Reser wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 09:47:56AM -0700, Ben Reser wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 10:15:58PM -0700, Ben Reser wrote:
> > Yup it said:
> > Loading ELF
> > and then said
> > CLAIM failed
> > Same as I remember from last time. I think I need those alternate boot
> > disks.
>
> Yup it was the same and I know why it didn't work now. I have Linux/PPC
> installed on this machine and am booting via yaboot. yaboot has a OF
> Prompt option so I was being lazy and rather than holding down that
> convoluted set of keys at boot I was just choosing it. However, if I do
> the keyboard entry into OF it works just fine with cd:\\yaboot
>
> Thanks for the help. I'll let you know how the rest of the install
> goes. Of to rsync my homedir and then format and install.
>
Ben,
Did you happen to also use LinuxPPC's cd boot option also, when you had
the original problem?
Stew Benedict
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