On 7 Jun, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace: > On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:46:38PM +0200, Gerhard Kroder wrote: >> After some weirdnesses with this, i finally have woody running on my >> 7248-133. I still use these "carolina..." image, booting with a floppy >> disk. I couldn't get the "make bootable" option get done what is should >> during base floppy installation. So i looked around in the later running >> system and found man pages for yabootconfig, ybin, mkoboot ea. i created >> with yabootconfig a base /etc/yaboot.conf, added nonvram and fstype=raw, >> as man page tells. i created a bootable "typ 41" partiton of 2 mb with >> cfdisk during installation as /dev/sda1, which should then carry the >> bootloader i tried to install with mkoboot. But it didn't work. When >> rebooting, the systeme want to eat the original SMS floppy disk. >> >> So, how do i make my PReP system boot from HD? Is yaboot good for this? > [snip] > > Hmmm, you said /dev/sda1, but on powerpc the first partition is reserved > for the partition map. Maybe you should go back in with mac-fdisk instead > of cfdisk and make that /dev/sda2 (Probably will need to shave a bit off > the 2MB to let the partition map be sda1).
On _PowerMacs_ (or rather Macs in general) the first partition is the partition table. That's Apple's partition scheme. I have no idea what partitioning scheme PreP machines use; but I doubt they'd use Apple's... Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]