Re: [SOLVED] Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Sean Schertell
(B> Perhaps you can explain initrd kernel images to me one day :-) (BIf I had a clue, I most certainly would. Thanks for your help ;-) (B-- (B: : : : : DataFly.Net : : : : : (BComplete Web Services (Bhttp://www.datafly.net

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Sebastian Tennant
> Thank you thank you thank you!!! > > My mac is back in action and kde is purring... > > :-) > > Thanks again guys! > > Sean Pleased to hear you're back up and running. Perhaps you can explain initrd kernel images to me one day :-) sebyte

[SOLVED] Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Sean Schertell
Thank you thank you thank you!!! My mac is back in action and kde is purring... :-) Thanks again guys! Sean On Sunday 11 July 2004 12:06 am, Rafael Ávila de Espíndola wrote: > Em Saturday 10 July 2004 11:55, Sean Schertell escreveu: > > I tried this: > > linux root=/dev/hda11 > > > > But stil

Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 11:09:38PM +0900, Sean Schertell wrote: > You were right Sebyte, I needed to use your ISO, not the one I had. So I > was able to mount my fs, but then in an effort to change my initrd.img.old > symlink, I accidentally hosed my real initrd.img-2.4.25-powerpc! Doh! Ah,

Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Sean Schertell
Well that chroot and then apt-get trick is pretty neat. But no network = no new kernel. I guess I'll see if I can get the network up, then fire up the shell, then mount my partition, then chroot into it, then apt-get my kernel, then fix yaboot --- ugh.. hope I can figure out how to bring up

Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Em Saturday 10 July 2004 11:55, Sean Schertell escreveu: > I tried this: > linux root=/dev/hda11 > > But still no joy... Boot with the cdrom, mount /dev/hda11 and chroot into it. Now you may "apt-get install" a kernel. Good luck. Rafael -BEGIN

Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Sean Schertell
I tried this: linux root=/dev/hda11 But still no joy... On Saturday 10 July 2004 11:47 pm, Rafael Ávila de Espíndola wrote: > Em Saturday 10 July 2004 11:09, Sean Schertell escreveu: > > Oh man.. This just keeps getting dumber :-( > > > > You were right Sebyte, I needed to use your ISO, not th

Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Rafael Ávila de Espíndola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- (BHash: SHA1 (B (BEm Saturday 10 July 2004 11:09, Sean Schertell escreveu: (B> Oh man.. This just keeps getting dumber :-( (B> (B> You were right Sebyte, I needed to use your ISO, not the one I had. So I (B> was able to mount my fs, but then in an effort t

Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Sean Schertell
Oh man.. This just keeps getting dumber :-( (B (BYou were right Sebyte, I needed to use your ISO, not the one I had. So I (Bwas able to mount my fs, but then in an effort to change my initrd.img.old (Bsymlink, I accidentally hosed my real initrd.img-2.4.25-powerpc! Doh! (BAnd of course t

Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Sebastian Tennant
> Thanks so much for your help Sebyte (and Colin). Unfortunately, neither > method seems to work for me. Colin's method looks like it's gonna work > but then panics for some reason. Sebyte's method looks good up until I > try to mount my filesystem --- there's nothing useful in /dev

Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Sean Schertell
On Saturday 10 July 2004 08:47 pm, you wrote: (B> On Saturday, July 10, 2004, at 10:07 am, Sean Schertell wrote: (B> > Please help! I've gotta get some work done quickly but I seem to have (B> > killed my yaboot and can't boot. It's on a PowerBook, so no floppy. (B> > I got (B> > hit with t

Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Seb Tennant
On Saturday, July 10, 2004, at 10:07 am, Sean Schertell wrote: Please help! I've gotta get some work done quickly but I seem to have killed my yaboot and can't boot. It's on a PowerBook, so no floppy. I got hit with the bug in module-init-tools 3.1-pre2-1 which causes this craziness: modp

Re: Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 06:07:37PM +0900, Sean Schertell wrote: > Please help! I've gotta get some work done quickly but I seem to have > killed my yaboot and can't boot. It's on a PowerBook, so no floppy. I got > hit with the bug in module-init-tools 3.1-pre2-1 which causes this > craziness:

Urgent! Yaboot died, how to rescue?

2004-07-10 Thread Sean Schertell
Please help! I've gotta get some work done quickly but I seem to have killed my yaboot and can't boot. It's on a PowerBook, so no floppy. I got hit with the bug in module-init-tools 3.1-pre2-1 which causes this craziness: modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/something... modprobe: F