yaboot on it's own partition? I thought it was on the /boot partition for Mandrake PPC? And that the Open Firmware would go to the blessed partition then get redirected to the /boot where yaboot exists? I'm thinking I'm way off base here...
Can I ask for partitioning suggestions based on the following info: OSX on the first 7.5GB Data on the second 7.5GB >From there my assumption was the "blessed partition" had its own space, a separate /boot partition of about 40MB was needed, a / partition for the file system was necessary, the a swap partition for virtual memory. Is that wrong? Should the /boot and "blessed" partitions be the same? Is that where I've gone wrong? When I looked at the installer's depiction of the partitions I could see the two Mac partitions, then the 4 above listed partitions (with the blessed partition just following the two Mac partitions)... Damon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stew Benedict" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 8:02 PM Subject: Re: iMac266, OSX Man82ppc installation won't boot > > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Damon Garn wrote: > > > Hmm This is an upgraded hd with OSX in the first 7.5GB and a data drive in > > the second 7.5GB, with the remaining 15 or so GB being free space (and being > > where I am attempting to put the "blessed partition", the /boot partition, > > the / partition and the /swap partition... > > > > How could I get yaboot into the first 2GB without repartitioning? Can it be > > installed thru OSX? > > > > No way that I know of. I don't have OSX, but yaboot really should be on > it's own partition, though I've seen folks do workarounds. (check the > linuxppc archives). Problem then becomes doing kernel upgrades when you > can't access it from the Linux side. My preference is to keep the > seperate OS's as seperate as possible. > > > Damon > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Stew Benedict" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 7:36 PM > > Subject: Re: iMac266, OSX Man82ppc installation won't boot > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Damon Garn wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hmmm maybe I'm too tired to be doing this... I didn't do the chroot /mnt > > > > "correctly" the first time and so my lack of a yaboot wasn't really > > > > accurate. Sorry. Anyway, once I discovered this I (correctly) went to > > the > > > > system's root and verified several things as suggested in previous > > posts: > > > > > > > > 1. yaboot.conf looks "normal" to me; I've reproduced it below: > > > > > > > > #yaboot.conf - generated by Drakx > > > > init-message="\nWelcome to Mandrake Linux!\n" > > > > boot=/dev/hda8 > > > > ofboot=hd:8 > > > > delay=30 > > > > timeout=50 > > > > install=/usr/local/lib/yaboot/yaboot > > > > magicboot=/usr/loca/lib/yaboot/ofboot > > > > enablecdboot > > > > enableofboot > > > > defaultos=linux > > > > default=linux > > > > image=hd:9,/vmlinuz-2.4.18-6.1mdk > > > > label=linux > > > > root=/dev/hda11 > > > > initrd=hda:9,/initrd-2.4.18-6.1mdk.img > > > > append=" devfs=mount" > > > > read-only > > > > image=hd:9,/vmlinuz-2.4.18-6.1mdk > > > > label=failsafe > > > > root=/dev/hda11 > > > > initrd=hda:9,/initrd-2.4.18-6.1mdk.img > > > > append=" devfs=mount failsafe" > > > > read-only > > > > macos=hd:6 > > > > > > > > > > > > 2. ran ybin -v and it confirmed installation and configuration. Output > > as > > > > follows: > > > > > > > > ybin: /proc filesystem is not mounted, nvram will not be updated > > > > ybin: installing first stage bootstrap /usr/local/lib/yaboot/ofboot onto > > > > /dev/hda8 > > > > ybin: installing primary bootstrap /usr/local/lib/yaboot/yaboot onto > > > > /dev/hda8 > > > > ybin: installing /etc/yaboot.conf onto /dev/hda8 > > > > ybin: Setting attributes on ofboot... > > > > ybin: Setting attributes on yaboot... > > > > ybin: Setting attributes on yaboot.conf... > > > > ybin: Blessing /dev/hda8 with Holy Penguin Pee... > > > > > > > > Could the Holy Penguin Pee have shorted out my system? > > > > > > > > 3. during the rescue mode boot from CD it finds the following: "probable > > > > root partition on /dev/hda11 (type ext3)" and "Mounting /dev/hda9 on > > > > /mnt/boot type ext2" > > > > > > > > What about the i386 versions of Linux where the boot info must reside > > within > > > > the first 1024 cylinders of the drive? > > > > Damon > > > > > > > > > > There was a problem on some of the old iMacs where yaboot needed to be in > > > the first 2GB? or so. Wasn't much of an issue until folks started > > > upgrading them with big drives. > > > > > > Stew Benedict > > > > > > -- > > > MandrakeSoft > > > PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 > > > IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc > > > > > > > > > > > > Stew Benedict > > -- > MandrakeSoft > PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 > IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc > >
