From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:52:43 -0800 From: Ethan Benson To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: yaboot issues Message-ID: <20010420155243.K6381@plato.local.lan> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Se9Fau8C8gEtdaPx" In-Reply-To: ; from vile8@hotmail.com on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:11:54PM +0000 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: --Se9Fau8C8gEtdaPx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:11:54PM +0000, James McD wrote: >=20 > Well, I cant find any docs on this so Im turning here for help. > I have a dual g4 533 machine. If I set it up the way I have read > I have a 100 meg HFS standard partition. Then I have 3 linux_svr partitio= ns > each a couple gigs for /home and /. Then I have a > linux_svr parition for swap. Then another hfs standard for mac os. > This of course puts me into the 12 parition range. I assume that is norma= l. you should setup an 800K type Apple_Bootstrap partition. =20 > My dilemna is this. I can boot off the cd, I can install. Then I can use = the > cd to boot a cd kernel and fire up the machine by specifying root. Howeve= r, > after copying the same files which are on the cd to > the boot partition, yaboot comes up from the hard drive....but does not b= oot > a kernel. It says > trying kernel: j_carr > Sound familiar to anyone? sounds like your using the broken linuxppc yaboot. try the mainline yaboot from penguinppc.org/~benh or /usr/ybin/yaboot/ yaboot-faq: http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc/yaboot-faq.shtml partitioning: http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.shtml ybin (yaboot installer): http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/ > Help. It appears yaboot doesnt play well with this machine. the mainline yaboot works fine on that machine, i have helped several people get it working. try a different distribution. =20 --=20 Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ --Se9Fau8C8gEtdaPx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline --Se9Fau8C8gEtdaPx-- ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/