On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 09:08:55PM -0600, Matt Knopp wrote: > > lost interupt for the hard disk sounds makes me think you are using > > bootx to boot, don't do that. bootx does not work very well on most > > of the newer `newworld' machines, instead use yaboot. > > Yeah, I have heard that. As best as I can tell at this point, I'm faced > with a chicken-egg problem, that is.. all the yaboot packages I have seen > are for linux; to install it i must be able to boot ... I am hoping that > bootX will "work well enough" with the benh tree and then I can move to > yaboot. Unless there is some other way of installing yaboot that I havnt > run across.
yaboot is not a linux binary or a macos binary, its an OpenFirmware binary, it simply has to be on a OF readable partition, so for initial setup you can put it on your macos partition (if you have one) and run this OF command: boot hd:<part>,yaboot where <part> is the partition number yaboot is on. when you setup your linux system make sure you create the first partition on the disk a bootstrap partition type Apple_Bootstrap, then you can use ybin to set it up. once you do that reset OF to default settings and you will always get a boot menu when you start the machine. keeping yaboot on a macos partition means you must manually adjust OF settings every time they are reset. i am working on documenting this better as we speak. and hopefully the boot floppies will be able to automate much of this. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
