[MORE] Can't boot to SCSI device...

[Romeyn Prescott]

I have tried following step 4 as detailed in the YDL "Where did the 
Yaboot Menu go?" 
(http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/boot_functions.shtml)

I follow the steps, but when I get to clicking on "bootloader" I get:

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This module has suffered a FATAL error!  Choose 'Continue' ...blah blah blah

IndexError: list out of range
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It goes on to list several .py files which are having trouble.

I've also tried installing a fresh IDE drive and installing Linux to 
THAT thinking I could eventually boot from that, mount my old 
partition, re-run ybin, and restore it THAT way.

Unfortunately, the 2.3 installer "craps out" part-way through package 
installation and the unit reboots to Mac OS 9.

:-(

Any advice at this point would be severely appreciates.  I'm no 
neophyte at this sort of thing, but I'm at wit's end!

Is there any more information I can provide that would help y'all help me?

Thanks,
...ROMeyn


At 3:10 PM -0500 12/19/02, Romeyn Prescott scribbled:
>I have a Mac G4 with an IDE drive and 3 SCSI drives.  It's worked so 
>well for so long I can't remember all the voodoo I had to do to get 
>it working waaaay back when.
>
>The YDL Linux 2.2 root partition is on /dev/sda7
>
>Sometime last week I was messing around with the "new" MOL (I 
>finally had time to play around with it) and installed it and booted 
>into OS X with MOL.  Both OS 9 and OS X are installed to the IDE 
>drive. ANYHOO, MOL mounted my bootstrap partition.  I didn't give it 
>a second thought until today when I had, for the first time in 
>MONTHS, to reboot this box.
>
>It booted to the MacOS.
>
>:-(
>
>I can NOT for the life of me get this box to boot back to Linux by 
>any means.  IIRC, I had taken the route of "hacking" Open Firmware 
>to give me a boot menu from which I chose CD, Linux, or Mac with 
>Linux being the default.
>
>I've tried booting from the 2.2 CD per instructions on the web site 
>and using "boot-cd root=/dev/sda7" (and sda5) to no avail.  All I 
>get are "Invalid device" errors.
>
>I've also tried to re-run the installer and re-define the boot 
>partition and mount points, but as soon as I click "OK" with 
>"Bootstrap" selected from the list of install things-to-do python 
>yacks with an option to either debug or quit (something about not 
>being able to write /etc/fstab...I can be more specific if you think 
>it'll help).
>
>Can someone PLEASE tell me how to get this thing booted so I can 
>redo the yaboot/ybin thing?
>
>Thanks,
>...ROMeyn
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