Okay, here's what I've discovered. Booted to rescue mode, did the chroot and I have NO yaboot.conf in my /etc/ directory! It would appear that I don't have a valid boot loader installed at all. I haven't been able to find a way to install it. When I mess with ybin I keep getting an error indicating I need to "specify the deive for the bootstrap partition in the form boot=/dev/hdaX" - that device should be hda8 according to the Mandrake setup that shows the "blessed" bootstrap partition as 8. What can I do to get yaboot going?
To sum up, it appears that the Open Firmware is going to the right partition and not finding boot info... I'm pretty sure this is a dumb question, but can I run grub instead? Damon On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 08:43 PM, Damon Garn wrote: [...] >> Attempted the following: >> 1. suggested fix of cmd-opt-o-f and set the OF option to the >> designated partition (*) with 'setenv boot-device hd:8;\\tbxi' then >> 'shut-down' > > What is /dev/hda8 (ie. what partition is this? /boot? the apple > bootstrap?) > > [This was the designated partition identified by the M8.2 install as > the > "blessed partition" where the normal startup would go to look for the > boot > manager (as I understand the process). The expert mode setup said to > write > that partition number down and use the above process in case of a > failed > boot. The OSX partitions are previous to that and the 3 Linux > partitions I > created follow it. ] Ok, so you went into OF and did a "setenv boot-device hd:8,\\:tbxi"? (My syntax could be slightly off). I had to do this last night myself, booting from an 8.2 install CD into rescue mode and running ybin in chroot as I booted into OS X and changed the startup disk to boot into OS9 so I could upgrade the version of palmos on my palm. Does "printenv boot-device" show the correct thing? I'm not really sure what else to suggest. The strangest behaviour I've got is when turning on my G4 (after it's been off), it loads up a grey screen and stalls, and I have to power down again. Once I power up the second time, ybin comes up just fine for me. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx - source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD: 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
