On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, David Kiltz wrote:
> Thanks all for the help. How do I do a rescue boot ?
> The only options I have are: l,m,x,cd,o.
> Actually it seems as though I was getting into yaboot (or whatever), as
> it it tells me sth. like "bootstrap first step".
> About mounting the bootstrap: I tried to mount it on install
> (graphical). However I don't know where to mount it. All the options I
> tried (/boot etc.) gave me an error: "no such device" . To do "mount -t
> hfs /dev/hda? /mnt/disk" I have to perform a non-graphical install ?
>
Sorry, should have been more clear. Use the install CD as a rescue disk.
"rescue" should be one of the options.
hda? - the "?" is a placeholder for whatever partition number your
bootstrap is on. As a clue, once you boot in rescue mode, you can list the
partition table:
[stew@powerbook stew]$ /sbin/pdisk -l /dev/hda
Password:
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda'
#: type name length base ( size )
1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 54 @ 64
3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 74 @ 118
4: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 54 @ 192
5: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 74 @ 246
6: Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 200 @ 320
7: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 520
8: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1032
9: Apple_HFS untitled 6339595 @ 1544 ( 3.0G)
10: Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 2048 @ 6341139 ( 1.0M)
11: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Mandrake8 6545408 @ 6343187 ( 3.1G)
12: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 819200 @ 12888595 (400.0M)
13: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Home 2355200 @ 13707795 ( 1.1G)
14: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Cooker 6545408 @ 16062995 ( 3.1G)
15: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 lsb-test 20480 @ 22608403 ( 10.0M)
So in my case the bootstrap in on /dev/hda10
> BTW, I have Linux installed on a secondary drive jumpered as "slave".
> Could that be a problem ?
Shouldn't matter, although the device may be /dev/hdb, rather than hda.
Stew Benedict
