On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 01:28:47AM +1300, Stephen Judd wrote: > (apologies for MS-cruft - I'm at work) > > That message you refer to was probably from me, just playing the part of > a concerned citizen. I have no pretensions to moderating anything. > > yaboot may sound extreme, but it's the way. it's not that hard tho. all > you need is: > > - a copy of yaboot at the top level of the directory structure of the > boot partition > - a valid yaboot.conf, also in / of your boot partition > - the ability to hold down cmd-opt-O-F at boot > - type "boot hd:n,yaboot" where n is the partition number > > You can make it more convenient with yabin etc, but my fingers are so > used to doing this automatically that I can't be bothered setting it up > any more. :-)
in fact ybin makes it quite a bit simpler, especially when you use the
one from potato r2 with powerpc-utils from potato r2, here is a
yaboot.conf for setting up yaboot on a macos boot partition:
boot=unconfigured
## ^^^^^^^^^^^^ change to macos partition
device=hd:
## ^^^ only change this if your not using internal ATA disk, use
## `ofpath /dev/sda' to find the right value for scsi
partition=3
## ^ partition number of your root filesystem
delay=10
timeout=20
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
## Comment out if you have a newworld compatible nvsetenv (ybin can
## likely detect the incompatible version) when commented out ybin
## will update the boot-device variable in OpenFirmware to the
## bootstrap partition.
#nonvram
#^^^^^^^ comment this out!
## add nobless otherwise macos won't boot anymore (since we are
## sharing with a macos partition)
nobless
## make yaboot files invisable in macos
hide
## make yaboot files read-only in macos
protect
image=/vmlinux
label=Linux
root=/dev/hda3
read-only
## enable boot menu with a MacOS entry:
macos=/dev/macospartition
then just run `ybin' note your macos partition must not be mounted, if
its mounted use the `mntpoint=/mntpoint' option, see yaboot.conf for
more details. this will build the boot menu and set OpenFirmware's
boot-device variable to boot it directly so you need not fsck with OF
at all.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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