Hello again! First of all sorry for the long quiescence, but I spent the weekend somewhere else ...
> > > then your yaboot.conf has something bogus in it. > > > > yaboot.conf was: > > > > boot=/dev/hda9 > > device=ultra0: > > this is the same as hd: and i recommend using hd: ok > > > partition=11 > > delay=20 > > install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot > > magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot > > > > image=/vmlinux > > label=linux > > root=/dev/hda11 > > read-only > > append="hdc=ide-scsi" > > but i don't see at all where this slave disk even enters the picture > at all. I have a similar yaboot.conf for my /dev/hdb ... sitting on /dev/hdb9. I meant when I boot with pressing the ALT-key, I get to the graphical OF. In my case I see one Linux-button for /dev/hda, one Linux-button for /dev/hdb and one button Mac-OS on hdb (which I want to remove ..., but that's another story). At that stage it normally takes a short time, during which the cursor mimiks a clock until I can choose the boot partition. But at that moment it hangs, it never changes back to an arrow-cursor and there is not reaction clicking one of my start-buttons. > > >...or else your grep is very broken. > > > > I bought the CD's as official Debian Binaries Potato 2.2r3, no other > > the one on boot-floppies was wonky, but it still worked fine with ybin > and i tested every release against it. your yaboot.conf has something > wrong with it, perhaps no trailing newline. It was the same without the newline between magicboot and vmlinux-line. At least with ybin I tried it repeatedly, with mkofboot just once. > > > I thought this too. The more I was surprised, and that's the reason I > > mentioned it in my mail ;-)- > > ybin might still parse it, id have to check, but it won't actually use > it for copying to the bootstrap partition, it generates its own on the > fly when you use options like --root --device --image and so on. > > > > where is your bootstrap partition? its obviously /dev/hda > > > > No it _was_ on /dev/hdb ... > > then why does yaboot.conf have boot=/dev/hda2 ? > I patitioned/installed the second disks Debian-Potato in between as we talked in the topic "mac-fdisk trouble on G4 douoble disk" to remove the Apple-driver gruft. This made my bootstrap moving from /dev/hda9 to /dev/hda2. The second bootstrap, I have with my Woody-disk was /dev/hdb9. Cheers -- mfg Georg Koss mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
