On Donnerstag, August 23, 2001, at 01:41 Uhr, Stew Benedict wrote:
>
> 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
Sorry for coming back to this so late. I was away for two weeks. Well, I
tried the above but unfortunately it didn't work. I got an error: "fs
type hfs (or HFS alternatively) not supported by kernel". Duh. Well, I
think I better get the final version burned and see how I fare with
that. Man, I'd really like to get that thing going. Hopefully the
problem will disappear.
In any case, I'm thankful for your help and time.
Regards,
-David
