On Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at 08:39 PM, Jonathan Sailor wrote:
> Comments on booting the rescue mode: > You do see a yaboot prompt when booting off the cd, right? Yup! I will check it out. I want to split my remaining 11.1 GB into a Darwin partition followed by Mandrake. > 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 You did Jonathan and thanks! > 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 > >
