Hi Guys, I've just switched from SuSE 7.1 PPC to YDL after a buddy of mine showed me his mac booting without the use of a CD, something which I've had to endure for years.
I haven't had much of a smooth run, with the various installations hanging at the end at the post installation bit, but after my fourth attempt, now have a complete YDL setup running, but no yaboot menu. My config: PowerBook G4, tibook. 1 x 20Gb hard disk dedicated 100% to linux output of fdisk -l : Disk /dev/hda: 20.0 GB, 20003880960 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38760 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 2 976+ 41 PPC PReP Boot /dev/hda2 * 3 4 1008 83 Linux /dev/hda3 5 1044 524160 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 1045 38760 19008864 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1045 1207 82120+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 1208 38760 18926680+ 83 Linux I boot the system from my YDL CD1, by specifying kernel linux root=/dev/hda6 and I can log in and work pretty much the same as before with SuSE. If I login as root and run ybin, it exits cleanly, but on reboot, just get the flashing happy mac / ? icon to indicate that the OS can't be found. Is the above partition order OK? Is the correct partition marked bootable, or should /dev/hda1 be bootable? I've tried the OF boot strings with no sucess. I've zapped P Ram which eliminated the auto-dimmed screen at startup problem, but didn't resolve the yaboot issue. Anyone got any ideas of what I could try? TIA, -Enda. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
