On Tue, Mar 14, 2000, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >this i do not understand, i have exuceted yaboot 0.5 from the first >second 5th 9th etc parttions and it works fine, i think you might have >found a new yaboot bug... your using G4 firmware right? perhaps it has >differently obfusacted paths then the G3 does.. Ben?
I never had this problem on my G4 and the iBook. There is a problem when not specifying the partition number (hd:,yaboot will usually not work), but when specified, it should work. What was your exact path ? Did you set the partition number correctly ? (did you check with pdisk that the number was correct ?) >also Ben has found out that ppclinux.apple.com is broken in the way it >sends the yaboot binary, you will most certainly get corrupt copies >from there, to deal with this i have setup a mirror of yaboot on my >web page (see .sig) i put it in a tarball as this seems more reliable >with most browsers. I am certain this copy works because it used the >one from /boot/yaboot that is booting my system! however if this is >indeed a new new bug in yaboot on G4s that won't help you. ppclinux.apple.com should be fixed soon. (Hum, I hope so....)
