12/2 G5 install disks -- kernel panic on boot

[Ian Marlier]

It's a beautiful thing.  Worked like a charm.

Thanks, Stefan, Robert, and Eric...great help, all of you.



On 12/10/03 8:34 AM, "Stefan Bruda" <bruda@ubishops.ca> wrote:

> 
> Hi.
> 
> At 03:56 -0500 on 2003-12-10 Ian Marlier wrote:
>> 
>> BUT, my machine doesn't want to respect the yaboot install.
> 
> I assume that this is the same problem I had during the install (same
> dual 2GHz G5).  If so, problem is that ybin did not for some reason
> run during the install process so you'll have to run it by hand.  Boot
> from the install CD, press TAB to stop the timer and type
> 
>   linux root=/dev/sdaX
> 
> where X is the number of your root (not bootstrap) partition--you did
> record it right?  Once you get to a shell prompt run
> 
>   /usr/sbin/ybin -v
> 
> and reboot the system.  Be prepared to do all of this again.  You will
> hopefully find the familiar first stage boot prompt, but you may
> receive an error (I did) in the second stage and complaining about an
> illegal device.  Cause is that for some other reason the installer did
> not figure out the OF path to my hard disk correctly.  If you get this
> repeat the procedure of booting off the CD with linux root=... option,
> and once back to the shell prompt run
> 
>   /usr/sbin/ofpath /dev/sda
> 
> Edit then /etc/yaboot.conf and change the <watever> in the line
> 
>   device=<whatever>
> 
> to the result of the ofpath command.  While you are at it, check that
> you have the macosx line in there with the format
> 
>   maxosx=/dev/sdaY
> 
> (where Y is the partition on which you installed OS X).  After all the
> editing my yaboot.conf ended up looking like this:
> 
>   boot=/dev/sda9 
>   device=/ht@0,f2000000/pci@7/k2-sata-root@c/k2-sata@0/disk@0:
>   init-message="Welcome to Turing!\nHit <TAB> for boot options.\n\n"
>   partition=11
>   timeout=30
>   install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
>   magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
>   default=linux64r
>   macosx=/dev/sda14
>    
>   image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.0-0.test9.1.70hsmp
>           label=linux32
>           root=/dev/sda11
>           read-only
>           initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.0-0.test9.1.70hsmp.img
>           append="video=ofonly hda=ide-scsi"
>    
>   image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.0-0.10.64a
>           label=linux64
>           root=/dev/sda11
>           read-only
>           append="video=ofonly hda=ide-scsi"
>    
>   image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.0-0.10.64a
>           label=linux64r
>           root=/dev/sda11
>           read-only
>           append="video=radeon:dsp hda=ide-scsi"
>    
>   delay=10
>   enablecdboot
> 
> Save the file, run again
> 
>   /usr/sbin/ybin -v
> 
> and reboot.  You should be in business.  By the way, as you can see
> from the image sections, the experimental 64-bit kernel actually
> supports my Radeon 9600 and yes, it's at full resolution.  X works
> with the unaccelerated framebuffer, but at least it works--will
> compile a development snapshot of XFree86 as soon as I find the time
> and I hope then to have accelerated X too.  The machine is really fast
> and a pleasure to work on (even with nonaccelerated X).
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Stefan