From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 05:40:42 -0800 From: Ethan Benson To: Mark Steer Cc: Olaf Hering , Tim Wojtulewicz , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Setting up yaboot Message-ID: <20000406054042.E2099@plato.localdomain.local> References: <20000406133706.D10753@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vv4Sf/kQfcwinyKX" In-Reply-To: ; from mark@insanely-great.co.uk on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 02:23:38PM +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: --vv4Sf/kQfcwinyKX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 02:23:38PM +0100, Mark Steer wrote: > I've recently setup my new Pismo/400 with Linux and, as of this morning, > Darwin 1.0 and I think I'm going to require a hard drive upgrade about 6 > months sooner than I'd planned for... ;-) > I can confirm that you do need to add the PowerBook3,1 line into the > section before the Pismo will use the os chooser script > correctly. thought so... > One thing I noticed, at least with this machine, is that the line:- >=20 > boot hd:10,\\yaboot >=20 > will fail unless I rewrite it as:- >=20 > boot hd:10,yaboot that line means boot yaboot from the root directory, certianly the most reliable method i have found other then hd:,\\:tbxi (which only works on CHRP scripts with a properly blessed directory)=20 the first notation means to load the file from the blessed directory, which if there isn't one will fail. macos tends to remove the blessing from non-macos directories. > This is the first new world machine that I have setup with Linux so I don= 't > know if this is right for others or if my configuration may be different. > I'm going to be upgrading :-) an iMac DV with Linux this afternoon so I'll > report back what that one does with regard to the os chooser script. >=20 > Now I'm off to try and rewrite the script so that I can choose Darwin as > well... does darwin still use UFS or ffs for its default filesystem? if so it probably uses a bootstrap partition of type Apple_Bootstrap or Apple_BootROM setup pretty much the same way i advocate (that is where i got the idea, from OSX server) if it does still use this partition you should be able to add a reference to it like so: hd:6,\\:tbxi =20 to your chooser script. where 6 is the real partition number of the darwin bootstrap partition. --=20 Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ --vv4Sf/kQfcwinyKX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjjsk9oACgkQJKx7GixEevyNNgCfVLC8hPZKb1WYcH0JPqJ6GIWZ troAn02Jrh3Nc2p3WIWY69bNScQhdW5C =8QNB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vv4Sf/kQfcwinyKX-- ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/