Installation Woes on a B&W

[Felix Jodoin]

First of all, it's yaboot, and the bootloader should be 10mb. I have a 
maxtor 60GB drive (beleive it or not) same as you, and it's hda. You 
should try booting off the disc and running
linux rescue root=/dev/hd**
-Proteus

On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 10:45  PM, Dan DeBoer wrote:

> Hi all.  I'm having serious problems installing YDL 2.3 on my Blue and 
> White.  Here's the story.  First, i downloaded the iso off the web.  
> Next burnt it to a CD.  For a test, i installed it on my 6 gig HD 
> located on the motherboard bus.  Worked perfectly.  Next, I decided to 
> install in on my actual drive.  it is a maxtor 60 gig located on acard 
> ATA/66 ide card.  i reformatted the drive with a 8356 mb unallocated 
> partion, followed by a 20 gig osx extended, then 5 gig os 9 extended 
> with finally, whatever was left data (standard).  i then booted off 
> the cd an right away yahboot came up.  i clicked install and when it 
> got to load media, it said that it couldn't.  so i rebooted and then 
> at the install prompt typed install-gui hdi=ide-scsi (my hd is hde, 
> cdrom is hdi, and zip is hdj).  everything loads fine and then its 
> time to partition.  I choose 100 mb for bootloader, 256 mb for swap, 
> and 8 gig for the rest.  I click save and it says formatting.  After 
> that completes, i followed through with the rest of the installation.  
> no errors were ever reported.  finally, it came time to reboot.  All i 
> got was a blinking ?.  So then i dedcided maybe i needed to have os 9 
> installed.  so i did that and re-ran the installer.  still nothing.  
> it boots always into os 9 with no choice.  i then tried it again and 
> noticed that in the mount points, my 100 mb boot partition is not 
> listed.  Could this be my problem and if so how do i fix it?  Any help 
> would be greatly desired.  Thanks in advance for any help i receive
>
>
> dan
>
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