Derrik Pates wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 08:31:33AM +0100, Hani Jabr wrote: > > I'm sorry. The distribution I am installing is the latest (potato?), and > > the > > problem I am having with getting it to boot is that I didn't create an 800K > > 'Apple_Bootstrap' partition. The documentation I read says to create it > > before > > the first Mac OS partition. This is for Yaboot. Is there an alternative > > that > > the documentation does not describe? Is there another way? > > Use the 'r' command in mac-fdisk to reorder the logical partition > ordering (the partition will be _physically_ after the MacOS partition, > but its entry will be before that of the MacOS partition). It doesn't > even strictly have to be before the MacOS partition, but that's for > convenience (if the XPRAM gets trashed, the yaboot partition will get > picked up first when the OpenFirmware does a bootable partition scan). > >
OK, now I'm really confused. I've created the system such that the original os x/os 9 partition is untouched at number 10, reordered the bootstrap partition to number 9, the swap partition is 11 and the root partition is 12. I booted off the cd and ran mkofboot -o hd:12 --boot /dev/hda9 -m /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot --root /dev/hda12 --partition 12 I also ran ybin -v -b /dev/hda9 -i /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot, however that gave a "file not found" error. It did say that it had successfully completed, though, and it did change the firmware boot device to partition 9. I rebooted, looked at the partition, all ok. I told it to boot and it said "MAC-PARTS: Specified partition is not valid can't OPEN hd:9,tbxi" I also tried setting the boot device to hd:9,yaboot.... What am I doing wrong? Hani -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
