On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 12:18:34AM -0700, Wesley Smith wrote: > I'm using a G5. I can get to the yaboot menu, but no further. To get > further, I have to edit yaboot.conf. Is there a way to access it from > the menu? Otherwise, are there any other techniques besides using a > live Ubuntu disc?
as Jack mentionned earlier, you can do this using a debian installer cd. - boot on the cdrom, enter install-power4 at the prompt - follow the installer up to the point in mounts the cd - press alt+f2 to access a shell - use the following command to mount your root partition # mkdir /rootpart # mount -t ext3 /dev/sda4 /rootpart provided the partition is the 4th one on the scsi disk and uses ext3. you may need the device path to something like /dev/scsi/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 - chroot in the partition, edit yaboot.conf and run yaboot # chroot /rootpart # vi /etc/yaboot.conf # ybin -v # exit # eject # reboot i think only earlier versions of yaboot needed to have /proc mounted from within the chroot. if so, use 'mount /proc' before calling ybin. hth, paul > > thanks, > wes > > On 5/31/05, Mike S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wesley Smith wrote: > > > > >I'm curious as to how it was done by someone else on this list back in > > >February. By what they wrote in the thread, they seemed to be able to > > >access the yaboot.conf from a shell obtained from the installer after > > >mounting the drive. I need to do the same thing on my system since I > > >installed debian on the 2nd drive. Here's the reference: > > > > > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2005/02/msg00081.html > > > > > >wes > > > > > >On 5/31/05, Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >>On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 06:10:07 +0200, james houston wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >>>What is the best direction to go then? > > >>> > > >>> > > >>This kind of sucks, since it's not enough to edit yaboot.conf but you also > > >>have to issue "ybin" on the CLI (that's why I hope Grub2 comes as soon as > > >>possible). > > >> > > >>Try booting with a livecd (Ubuntu's will do just fine), chroot yourself > > >>into your linux partition and make all the changes you need. You will > > >>probably need to mount also your /proc filesystem (I remember I had to > > >>when I was in your situation). > > >> > > >>Good luck! > > >> > > >>-- > > >>Best Regards, Jack > > >>Linux user #264449 > > >>Now on iBook! > > >> > > >> > > >>-- > > >>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > In these new powerbooks are you not able to open OpenFirmware at boot > > anymore I do not know how to edit the yaboot.conf file, from OS X, but > > I know that I have always been able to use a simple boot argument from > > yaboot, and to get there I have aways used option at boot if the yaboot > > partition isn't activley bootable. Ofcourse if you can't even get into > > the part after hitting l then I don't know, except that if you hold > > command option o f at boot then open firmware should boot up into which > > you should be able to enter a direct boot kernel, bypassing yaboot, [I > > think] someone correct me if I'm wrong > > > > --Mike S > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
