Re: Cannot boot 9.1 after OSX installation
Hi all! Yesterday I installed the new OSX Panther on my ibook. Now I cannot boot Linux. My boot partition is on /dev/hda11, swap on 12 and my system on 13. I tried the rescue-system with mount /dev/hda11 /mnt -- dont work, because must specifie the partition type then mount /dev/hda13 /mnt and chroot /mnt ybin -v .. After reboot no bootmanager again. Any ideas? I'm surprised ybin didn't complain about no /proc mounted. Normally you need to mount /proc in the chroot also. You wouldn't normally want to mount the bootstrap, if that's what you're referring to on hda11. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft Today I tried mkofboot, no errors but no bootmanager too. After reboot always OSX is starting What had I best do? New installation? Bye! Andreas
Re: Cannot boot 9.1 after OSX installation
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:19, Andreas wrote: Hi all! Yesterday I installed the new OSX Panther on my ibook. Now I cannot boot Linux. My boot partition is on /dev/hda11, swap on 12 and my system on 13. I tried the rescue-system with mount /dev/hda11 /mnt -- dont work, because must specifie the partition type then mount /dev/hda13 /mnt and chroot /mnt ybin -v .. After reboot no bootmanager again. Any ideas? I'm surprised ybin didn't complain about no /proc mounted. Normally you need to mount /proc in the chroot also. You wouldn't normally want to mount the bootstrap, if that's what you're referring to on hda11. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft Today I tried mkofboot, no errors but no bootmanager too. After reboot always OSX is starting What had I best do? New installation? No. It seems ybin didn't write to the OF the right command for the boot, so do it yourself: Jump to Open Firmware by pressing COMMAND-OPTION-O-F (apple key + alt key and the O and F key depressed) and reboot. This will bring you the Open Firmware 'shell', then enter the following command: printenv locate the boot-device entry then enter the following command (from memory, basically the last part should be the same as what is shown by the printenv except that the partition number is added (aka 11 in your case)): setenv boot-device hd:11,:\\tbxi Then reboot by entering the mac-shutdown command (or something like that)... Brice
Re: Cannot boot 9.1 after OSX installation
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:19, Andreas wrote: Hi all! Yesterday I installed the new OSX Panther on my ibook. Now I cannot boot Linux. My boot partition is on /dev/hda11, swap on 12 and my system on 13. I tried the rescue-system with mount /dev/hda11 /mnt -- dont work, because must specifie the partition type then mount /dev/hda13 /mnt and chroot /mnt ybin -v .. After reboot no bootmanager again. Any ideas? I'm surprised ybin didn't complain about no /proc mounted. Normally you need to mount /proc in the chroot also. You wouldn't normally want to mount the bootstrap, if that's what you're referring to on hda11. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft Today I tried mkofboot, no errors but no bootmanager too. After reboot always OSX is starting What had I best do? New installation? No. It seems ybin didn't write to the OF the right command for the boot, so do it yourself: Jump to Open Firmware by pressing COMMAND-OPTION-O-F (apple key + alt key and the O and F key depressed) and reboot. This will bring you the Open Firmware 'shell', then enter the following command: printenv locate the boot-device entry then enter the following command (from memory, basically the last part should be the same as what is shown by the printenv except that the partition number is added (aka 11 in your case)): setenv boot-device hd:11,:\\tbxi Then reboot by entering the mac-shutdown command (or something like that)... Brice Won´t work! After reboot now there is a little folder-icon with an question mark on it, than the mac-icon, and than the apple in the middle of the screen for booting OSX. I have done the same procedure (installing new system) before, but i forgot how it functioned ;-( Andreas
Re: Cannot boot 9.1 after OSX installation
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Andreas wrote: Today I tried mkofboot, no errors but no bootmanager too. After reboot always OSX is starting What had I best do? New installation? You looked at the link fleny68 posted also? I'm not quite sure how the kernel would have anything to do with it, since the kernel isn't active yet at that point, but worth a try I suppose. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
Re: Cannot boot 9.1 after OSX installation
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:19, Andreas wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:19, Andreas wrote: What had I best do? New installation? No. It seems ybin didn't write to the OF the right command for the boot, so do it yourself: Jump to Open Firmware by pressing COMMAND-OPTION-O-F (apple key + alt key and the O and F key depressed) and reboot. This will bring you the Open Firmware 'shell', then enter the following command: printenv locate the boot-device entry then enter the following command (from memory, basically the last part should be the same as what is shown by the printenv except that the partition number is added (aka 11 in your case)): setenv boot-device hd:11,:\\tbxi Then reboot by entering the mac-shutdown command (or something like that)... Won´t work! After reboot now there is a little folder-icon with an question mark on it, than the mac-icon, and than the apple in the middle of the screen for booting OSX. It means that there are no usable yaboot files on your hda11 partition. Are you sure your boot (I mean the apple bootstrap partition, not the partition where vmlinux (usually /boot)) partition is hda11 ? Try the setenv thing and change the partition number... Can you still boot MacOSX ? If yes mount hda11 under MacOSX and have a look to see if it contains the yaboot files... Brice
Re: Cannot boot 9.1 after OSX installation
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:19, Andreas wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:19, Andreas wrote: Hi all! mount /dev/hda13 /mnt and chroot /mnt ybin -v .. After reboot no bootmanager again. I'm surprised ybin didn't complain about no /proc mounted. Normally you need to mount /proc in the chroot also. You wouldn't normally want to mount the bootstrap, if that's what you're referring to on hda11. Yes, Stew is right, you must mount your root partition AND /proc to the chroot if you want to run ybin (yaboot needs to access to the nvram to update the boot-device): boot in rescue from the CD $ mount /dev/hdaXX /mnt where XX is the partition number of / if /usr is on another partition, mount it too $ mount /dev/hdaYY /mnt/usr $ mount -t proc proc /mnt/proc to mount the /proc partition $ chroot mnt /usr/sbin/ybin -v (can't remember exactly where is ybin, I don't have my mac here at work). Send us the output of the last command if it failed. $ umount /mnt/proc $ umount /mnt/usr $ umount /mnt $ reboot I hope this will help you, Brice
Re: Cannot boot 9.1 after OSX installation
Fwiw, I've read of occasions where MacOS* has renumbered the partitions also, so perhaps your partitions are no longer arranged as you think they are. -- Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft
