On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 10:20:23AM -0500, Todd Shrider wrote: > Thanks! > > I found most of the stuff you pointed out. I also found a doc at: > > http://www.dartmouth.edu/~jonh/lppc-serve/cache/572.html > > that shows how to bootstrap a system from a ydl or linuxppc.com port. > > Unfortunately (?)
not unfortunately, yaboot is more robust and reliable. just create a 800K bootstrap partition at the front of your disk to hold it after the install, and use my ybin utilites to manage it. just as easy as lilo. (in mac-fdisk use the C command and create the bootstrap partition as type Apple_Bootstrap) ybin is at http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ybin/ you need to get the hfsutils installed to use it though, once you get your base system installed and going apt-get install hfsutils, and you should be read to get yaboot more permanetly configured. then you can have a nifty bootmenu to dual boot macos if you still need it. don't try and keep yaboot on macos partition forever, its more trouble then its worth. > I have a new IMac DV and BootX doesn't work, I have to use > yaboot. I've found some docs on ydl's site that show how to use it but when I > try > and supplement the debian kernel and ramdisk it gets ugly. you need a yaboot.conf, and debian's kernel may not work with yaboot (unless its been updated recently it wont) yaboot.conf: image=linux initrd=root1440.bin initrd-size=8192 label=install should do it assuming the boot floppy kernel and root image are next to yaboot (at the root of your bootstrap filesystem, probably a macos partition) > Oh well, this is why Linux is fun, right? :-) yup ;-) > -Todd > > > > There is no, I repeat, no secret documentation (R. Nixon) heh indeed :P -- Ethan Benson
