On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 01:17:21PM -0500, Mark T. Valites wrote: > I recently partitioned up my first generation ti-book for OS9,X,yellow > dog, & woody. I'm not sure how to properly set up the bootstrap(s) & > yaboot.conf(s) to boot both of the distros. I currently have one > bootstrap partition (installed with yellow dog) that lists the yellow > dog partition, OS9, & OS X as bootable options. I can get it to boot > to my debian partition by using a kernel from the yellow-dog partition, > and passing it the "root=/dev/hdaX" arg. However, this just doesn't > sound like the right way to do it. If I remove the yellow dog kernel > (rm -rf /my/kernel - oops....), then I can't boot to the debian > partition. I tried installing a second bootstrap partition & making the > first point to that, but I've had no such luck so far. Any ideas on the > proper way to do this? >
This seems to be a very normal kind of thing to do; have you tried just putting a second image label in the yaboot.conf? You can make the root= different in each label, as well as the kernel location. If you check out the yaboot.conf man page, there's even a way to have it accept a single letter at the boot: prompt to pick one label or the other. So, you would type l for linux at the Boot Menu, then say d for debian at the boot prompt. Or y for Yellow Dog if you _must_. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
