On Jul 10, 2006, at 7:57 PM, Agent M wrote:
> 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.
Unfortunately, I couldn't get to a tty from the installer. The
normal Ctrl+Alt+F* doesn't seem to work. This is on a PBG4.
However, if I reboot from the CD and enter rescue mode I can
eventually mount the root filesystem. From there I was able to try a
manual install of yaboot using yabootconfigure. This is the
transcript of that session:
<quote>
yaboot is the Linux Loader for PowerPC. yabootconfig sets up your
system to boot directly
from your hard disk, without the need for a boot CD, floppy or a
network boot.
Install yaboot bootstrap on /dev/sda2 to boot Linux from /dev/sda3?
[Yes] Creating a simple /etc/yaboot.conf...
ofpath: Driver: sg is not supported
yabootconfig: Unable to determine OpenFirmware device name to /dev/
sda, aborting...
</quote>
FWIW this is the /etc/yaboot.conf:
<quote>
## yaboot.conf generated by the Ubuntu installer
##
## run: "man yaboot.conf" for details. Do not make changes until you
have!!
## see also: /usr/share/doc/yaboot/examples for example configurations.
##
## For a dual-boot menu, add one or more of:
## bsd=/dev/hdaX, macos=/dev/hdaY, macosx=/dev/hdaZ
boot=/dev/sda2
device=
partition=3
root=/dev/sda3
timeout=100
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
enablecdboot
macosx=/dev/hda9
image=/boot/vmlinux
label=Linux
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="quiet splash"
image=/boot/vmlinux.old
label=old
read-only
initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old
append="quiet splash"
</quote>
Looks like the device= value is missing but is needed.
> 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.]
From those links and a few other in google, I suspect that the
device= option needs to be set. From DiskUtility->Info I got this
value:
fw/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@0:0
I'll try that in a bit and see how it goes.
Regards,
- Robert
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