Comments on booting the rescue mode: You do see a yaboot prompt when booting off the cd, right? Also, sys-linux (the x86 cd bootloader) is a lot more developed to this kind of thing. Yaboot, well, it does work. Try hitting tab for a list of images. (Syslinux was designed for this, yaboot was designed for lilo-ish stuff.)
Hope to help, good luck Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aaron Stechesen Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 5:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Booting Mandrake After install On Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at 05:46 AM, Stew Benedict wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Aaron Stechesen wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> I have been driven over the edge with this problem. I can successfully >> install Mandrake 8.0 PPC on my Rev.B Bondi iMac and I can get the >> bootloader installed (yaboot). Yaboot can boot Mac OS, the CDROM, and >> the Open Firmware but I can never get Linux to boot. I either get >> Loading Image.....(and it never loads) or the error message that it >> can't find the image. >> >> I have tried everything I could find on the web, in the document pages >> and I have posed this question on many Forums but I have not ever >> gotten >> answer. It seems that everyone can get the damn thing booted , and then >> have problems afterwards or have problems with the bootloader, but I >> don't have any troubles with install/configuration just booting. >> >> I am extremely frustrated and getting to wits end with Mandrake in >> general because of the endless problems I have been having with PPC 8.0 >> and the horrid PC 8.1 version. Please help me, after three months of >> frustration I need answers. I so much would like to run Mandrake on >> both >> my machines but I really need help getting going on my iMac. (The PC >> 8.0 >> runs just fine for me.) >> > > I own the same machine. I need to know some things about your partition > setup and yaboot setup. > > Can you: > > 1) boot the rescue CD Rescue cd? Do I enter rescue from the yaboot prompt after the cd loads or what. On the pc it is an option right from the time the cd boots/mounts (press F1 if I am not mistaken). > 2) tell me something about what > /sbin/pdisk -l /dev/hda > says I had it partitioned fine all three times that I laid out the hard drive. > 3) If you know what partition you installed linux on, mount it on > /mnt/disk in the rescue mode and send: > the contents of yaboot.conf > ls -l /boot > Can't help you there right now because I removed Mandrake in place of Darwin. But I may be able to devote a few GB to mandrake after. Is there a way to avoid this continual problem at install? I may try reinstalling before i install Darwin. > (You can bring up networking in rescue and ftp this stuff to another > machine) > > It sounds like just a typo or something in yaboot.conf, although the > installer should have set it up for you like it does for most everyone > else. Is /boot a seperate partition (even if it is, we uncovered that > issue in the beta and it should be fixed now)? > > Stew Benedict > > -- > MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ > PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ > > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
