I have a Blue & White G3, 400MHz, Rev. 2, with an Apple 2940 SCSI card and a 9GB drive.
YDL 4.0 installed successfully as the only OS on this drive, no dual-booting etc. However, after completing the install it will not boot into Linux on its own. I can boot YDL CD 1 and at the installer prompt do: linux root=/dev/sda3 And it boots up fine. BTW, I have also observed this same exact behaviour on an IDE disk, removing the SCSI completely. But now the SCSI is back in the system and I'd like to know how to make it boot into YDL. I am an absolute novice at Mac hardware and Mac OS, but I have lots of Linux experience. After sifting thru a lot of the mailing list archives and Apple's site, I am led to believe that it has something to do with Open Firmware, yaboot, or perhaps ofboot.b. The YDL installer offered to partition the disk with sda1 and sda2 for the reserved Apple partitions and then: sda3 / sda4 extended sda5 swap sda6 /boot Once I accepted this but then thought it strange that /boot be put in an extended partition like that. So on the most recent install, I changed it so that /boot is just part of /: sda3 / sda4 extended sda5 swap The YDL installer successfully modified my OF boot-device to be: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ADPT,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@1:2,\\:tbxi The SCSI disk is ID 1 and the sda2 partition has yaboot, so that seems right to me. However, the machine only boots into the little question mark icon blinking in the middle of the screen. I can hear the hard drive clicking a little bit before this, like it is trying to boot. After reading a bunch of various things about mac booting, I decided to "zap the PRAM". Now the boot-device is hd:,\\:tbxi -- obviously wrong for my G3. I've also tried pressing the CUDA switch with the power unplugged. (Not that I really know exactly how these could help, but hey...) So now I try to go: boot /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ADPT,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@1:2,\\:tbxi and OF responds with can't OPEN: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ADPT,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@1:2,\\:tbxi Interestingly, if I run the command again a couple more times, the OF prompt just hangs and I have to hit the reset button. I'm hoping that someone can suggest a new thing to try in OF, or perhaps shed some light on whether or not I need to modify yaboot.conf or ofboot.b. I have also tried running ybin -v (after booting via the CD), and it appears to be working correctly, modifying the sda2 partition, blessing, etc. Thanks a lot for any help. EG _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
