On Jul 10, 2006, at 2:28 PM, Robert Citek wrote: > > On Jul 10, 2006, at 1:20 PM, A.M. wrote: >> Can you be more specific? You only installed yaboot on the FW drive, >> right? What didn't work? > > For the install I told Ubuntu to use the entire FW drive. Towards > the end of the install Ubuntu complained that it couldn't install > yaboot on /dev/sda2. I looked for an error log but couldn't find > anything more detailed. I then went back to the install menu and > chose "Install yaboot". Again, Ubuntu complained that it couldn't > install on /dev/sda2. > > If you need more details, how can I get them? If you switch to a pty, one of them should be displaying syslog or alternately you can tail it. You will probably need to run yaboot yourself.
>> You need to hold down the option key at boot- this will present a >> UI with >> the available boot paritions that were detected. You can use the >> mouse or >> arrow keys (or even an Apple Remote!) to pick the partition. You >> can also >> use one of the system preference panes to set the default boot >> partition >> to that drive. > > Pressing down the option key doesn't show the external drive. It > does show the CD-ROM with the Ubuntu disk and the internal harddrive > with OS X, but nothing else. It may not be marked as bootable or there is no bootable partition. You can use Disk Utility (in OS X) to mark it as such. Then you should at least get a boot failure on that drive. Also, I dug this up: http://131.204.27.45/ydl-howto/ Look near the end for how to run yaboot and ybin manually. Also, "HOWTO Boot PPC Linux From An External FireWire Disk" http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2003- October/010501.html [Start at Step 18 and look at Step 23 for important info. Step 28 offers the OpenFirmware code to boot with intervention.] -M ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
