Dual/Triple booting with separate disks?

Rich Dolinsky yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Mar 28 10:34:01 2002


Try using sda instead of sdc.
It is your first scsi drive so this could be what giving you your problem.
When your computer first boots up, does linux show up at all?  If not you
need to resetup yaboot or bootx depending on your machine.

on 3/28/02 9:21 AM, Christopher Murtagh at christopher.murtagh@mcgill.ca
wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
>> When I rebooted after an apparently successful install, the G4 booted
>> back to MacOS.  I booted into YDL by booting from the CD and typing
>> "cd-linux boot=/dev/sdc8" and ran /sbin/ybin and the G4 still boots
>> from Mac OS on the IDE drive.
>> 
>> I tried booting from CD and going back into Linux again, but now,
>> after issuing the same command, it STARTS to boot, but kernel panics
>> because it can't read the super_block and can't find a reiserfs
>> filesystem on the device.
> 
> Sounds like your SCSI card might not be supported. Which card is it?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
>