Trouble w/yaboot

Trouble w/yaboot

[W. Taylor Holliday]

hi again :-)

I have an AGP G4 and I'm having trouble getting yaboot to work (I realize
this is nothing new). I've tried various OF device aliases and none will
work except cd: (using the linuxPPC installer CD). Both hd: and ultra0: do
not work (I'm using the partition number w/the kernel on it - doubt there's
any mistake there); yaboot says the device could not be found. I've even
tried using the zip: alias and a zip disk with my kernel on it to no avail.
Any suggestions?

-Taylor

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Re: Trouble w/yaboot

[Ethan Benson]

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On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 11:37:33PM -0700, W. Taylor Holliday wrote:
> 
> hi again :-)
> 
> I have an AGP G4 and I'm having trouble getting yaboot to work (I realize
> this is nothing new). I've tried various OF device aliases and none will
> work except cd: (using the linuxPPC installer CD). Both hd: and ultra0: do
> not work (I'm using the partition number w/the kernel on it - doubt there's
> any mistake there); yaboot says the device could not be found. I've even
> tried using the zip: alias and a zip disk with my kernel on it to no avail.
> Any suggestions?

exactly what command are you using to boot yaboot? are you using the
internel IDE disk?  scsi disks do not have device aliases (at least
not that i have seen)

is it OpenFirmare or yaboot that is claiming device not found?
(yaboot turns the screen black) 

the hd: alias SHOULD work

boot hd:6,yaboot  if partition 6 is the one with yaboot on it...

as for your previous message it seems you figured out the answer
yourself: don't use BootX, use yaboot ;-)

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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Re: Trouble w/yaboot

[Wilson Taylor Holliday]

Hi

Thanks Ethan for the very prompt response :-). Sorry about my ambiguity
regarding where I was using the device alias. I was referring to the yaboot.conf
file rather than my inital OF command to get to yaboot. Anyway, I solved the
problem, I renamed vmlinux.2.2.15pre3 to vmlinux and then hd:9,vmlinux worked
fine.

my next task is to get XFree 4.0 working on both my monitors (seems tough)

thanks
- Taylor


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