Message: 3
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 08:19:28 -0400
From: mascarasnake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Machine boots directly into Mac OS X with no yaboot boot
menu
To: Yellow Dog Linux Newbie List
<[email protected]>
The second ways is by following the instructions at this web site:
http://penguinppc.org/bootloaders/yaboot/doc/yaboot-howto.shtml/ch9.en.shtml
under the title "9.2 Loading Yaboot". I strt my machine and hold the
Command-Option-o-f keys and the open firmware screen appears at the
prompt I enter:
0 > boot hd:2,yaboot
and yellowdog linux starts.
BUT I dont want to have to do this everytime to use linux, I had yaboot
set up and now it is gone. Is there anything I can do to get yaboot
running again so I can choose which OS to boot each time I start up?
Thanks for reading.
You should be able to straighten things out by simply running 'ybin' (as
root) once you are booted into YDL. If your 'yaboot.conf' file is set up
properly, this should reset the OF to recognize yaboot on the bootstrap
partition first.
Hello!
I am faced with exactly the same problem. I therefore tried the above
solution, i.e. I gave this OF commmand:
boot hd:12,yaboot
This started the loading of Linux, but it stopped a little later with
this error message (copied by hand):
VFS Cannot open root device "hda15" or unknown-block(0,0)
Pleased append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(0,0)
Rebooting in 180 seconds.
That has a touch of "déjà vu", but one never knows what to do about it:
it seems that I am supposed to write "root=/dev/hda15" or perhaps
"root=hd:15" somewhere. As a matter of fact, it is already in
yaboot.conf, and also in the kernel (default parameters), but this
obviously is not sufficient. I have tried to add it to the OF command
above, and at the prompts that come later, all to no avail.
Thanks to anybody that could point out the correct solution.
Charles
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