On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:27:30PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Chris Tillman wrote: > > >>>>>Your /target/etc/yaboot.conf should have something like > >>>>> > >>>>>boot=/dev/hde6 > >>>>>device=ide0: > >>>>>timeout=50 > >>>>>fgcolor=light-cyan > >>>>>install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot > >>>>>magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot > >>>>>macos=/dev/hde14 > >>>>>macosx=/dev/hde15 > >>>>> > >>>>>image=/vmlinux > >>>>> label=Linux > >>>>> read-only > >>>>> partition=7 > >>>>> root=/dev/hde7 > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>Having taken a break from this issue for a few days, I'm now back at it. > >> > >>Since the above suggestions and resulting errors, I have done the > >>following: > >> > >> chroot /target > >>which gave me a shell with /target as my top level root > >> > >> sh-2.05a# mount -t proc proc /proc > >> > >>which mounted the proc filesystem. Previous to this step, "ls /proc" > >>showed no files. Now it shows a normal-looking /proc directory. > >> > >> sh-2.05a# ybin -v > >> > >>which generated these errors: > >> > >>ybin: Finding OpenFirmware device path to '/dev/hde6' . . . > >>ofpath: Device: /dev/hde not supported > >>ybin: Unable to find OpenFirmware path for boot=/dev/hde6 > >>ybin: Please add ofboot=<path> where <path> is the OpenFirmware path to > >> /dev/hde6 to /etc/yaboot.conf > >> > >> > > > >If you're in the chroot, you need to mount /proc so it can find the nvram > > > >chroot /target > >mount -t proc proc /proc > >ybin -v > > > >Sorry I forgot about that earlier. > > > > > Yeah; as mentioned above, I figured that out today. Still, it's good to > get verification that I did the right thing. > > >>And then pretty much the same error messages for /dev/hde14 and > >>/dev/hde14. > >> > >> > >>So I then editted /target/etc/yaboot.conf and added the line: > >> ofboot=cd:6 > >> > >> > > > >that shouldn't be cd:6, in your case I would try ide0:6. What does the > >rest of > >your yaboot.conf look like? But first just try mounting /proc. > > > > > > > Pretty much exactly what you have listed at the top of this message, > except that macos is on 13 and macosx is on 14 (I reinstalled adn > repartitioned again and changed things a tiny bit) and I changed the > "device=" and "fgcolor=" lines. > > boot=/dev/hde6 > device=cd: > timeout=50 > fgcolor=cyan > install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot > magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot > macos=/dev/hde13 > macosx=/dev/hde14 > > image=/vmlinux > label=Linux > read-only > partition=7 > root=/dev/hde7 > > > I used "cd:" instead of "ide0" because I booted into the installation > from the OpenFirmware prompt using the command "boot cd:14,yaboot"
Man is your system strange, I wonder if it got miswired somehow. > (partition 14 is mislabled in yaboot.conf above; should be "macstandard" > or something). Looking at the output of "devalias", "cd" corresponded > more accurately to "hd" (except on the other controller) than it did to > "ide0:", as shown here: > > Interesting things from "devalias": > ------------------ > > ide0 /pci/@d/mac-io/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ide1 /pci/@d/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > hd /pci/@d/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > cd /pci/@d/mac-io/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > zip /pci/@d/mac-io/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm totally stumped. I think you should forward this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Package: yaboot to get some expert advice. -- *------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]
