On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 02:02:10PM -0600, pohl wrote: > image. In my case, the files were > yaboot > yaboot.conf > vmlinux-2.2.15pre14-ben1 > ramdisk.image.gz > > Ugh, I've been racking my brain to remember exactly what > the yaboot.conf file looked like, but can't off the top of > my head.
device=hd:
timeout=20
image=vmlinux-2.2.15pre14-ben1
label=install
initrd=ramdisk.image.gz
initrd-size=8192
> 4) Once you're in the open firmware prompt, type
> boot zip:yaboot
actually boot zip:,yaboot
but the comma may not be required, depends on how anal your variety of
OF is.
> where "yaboot" is the name you saved the yaboot binary as,
> which was, at one time, "yaboot_0.6" in my case.
>
>
> There were a couple of deb packages that I needed that were
> NOT on the installation CD. You see, the ybin program needs to
> run a program called "nvsetenv" in order to make OpenFirmware
> boot off of the yaboot partition automagically -- but it needed
> to be a more recent version of nvsetenv than was in potato when
> it was released. You can get it by installing
>
> http://screaming.org/~pohl/powerpc-utils_1.1.3-2_powerpc.deb
the current version is in proposed-updates
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ dists/proposed-updates/
the new yaboot/ybin package is also there,
apt-get update
apt-get install powerpc-utils yaboot
will get you the new yaboot/ybin and nvsetenv.
the debian package in proprosed-updates contains ybin-0.29, the
current version. please test!
> Someone else may have a more recent version. This was the one that
> got me going.
see above.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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