On Tue Aug 14, 2001 at 04:10:21PM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote:
> > When I hit C to boot off the install CD, it takes an extremely long
> > time before I see anything on the screen. Then I get a quick kernel
> > message and it fires up DrakX, but I don't get an actual boot prompt
> > (like with lilo) to specify any options. I think I need this because
> > DrakX started with the most horrendous colors and was either taking an
> > obscene amount of time or it hung (not sure which.. after about 15
> > minutes I just reset the machine).
>
> Infamous boot bug - try booting from open frmware so you get the yaboot
> prompt and then try install-aty128fb
>
> Command-Option-O-F at power up
> boot cd:2,\\yaboot
>
> Sorry - Feedback had told me this was fixed - apparently not =(
No problem... I did get it. Now I've got another problem... =) I
can't get into the linux setup... I did this twice, the second time
realizing I needed a 1MB partition set for the bootloader (there
should be some kind of note on the partitioning screen about
this)... the HFS bootstrap partition.
Anyways, I made that and have the following layout:
/dev/hda11 = HFS bootstrap (no mount point)
/dev/hda12 = /
/dev/hda13 = swap
/dev/hda14 = /home
DrakX told me to do:
setenv boot-device hd:11,\\:tbxi
shut-down
then reboot. All I get is a folder with a question mark, then it
boots into MacOS. What did I do wrong here?
Right now, I can't boot into Mandrake at all.. just MacOS. If I tell
it to switch to MacOS/X, it changes the boot-device, so I'm wondering
how (when I get Mandrake to boot), I tell yaboot to have an entry for
MacOS and another for MacOS/X so that I don't have to do the switch
disk thingy and overwrite the boot-device settings.
Other than those two items, the install went flawlessly and looks
really good.
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