YDL and firewire drive

[Michael George]

I've followed the directions on Richard McLain's 10/03/2003 Boot from a 
FireWire drive HOWTO on two separate drives and I keep getting the same 
error.

After typing "> boot fw/node/sbp-2/disk@0:2, yaboot" (and partition 2 
is the location of my bootloader partition), I get:

MAC-PARTS: LOAD (noninterposed) not supportedloadsize=0 adler32=1
LOAD-SIZE is too small

Since you are booting from the firewire drive happily, there is 
probably an error in what I did.  However, it's probably something more 
than a typo, because I did it twice on two separate drives.

Has anyone seen this error or know what could be causing it?  That 
might lead me to the problem and what I am doing wrong.

Thanks!

On Dec 10, 2003, at 8:17 PM, Gavin Hemphill wrote:
> YDL 3 boots fine from a firewire drive, thats the way I'm running my 
> YDL system now.  Search the archives for Bill Fink's howto boot ppc 
> linux from and external firewire drive.  Note: the discussion about 
> devfs seems to be a little off the mark since I'm using labels to 
> mount my root system without following any of that stuff.  To install 
> to a firewire drive you will have to use the full up kernel rather 
> than the BOOT version, and modify the initrd as specified in the 
> howto.
> 	G++
>
> Michael George wrote:
>
>> I just found out that YDL will not install onto a firewire drive.  
>> And according to the installation guide, one cannot boot YDL from a 
>> firewire drive.
>> Does anyone know of a workaround that will allow installing onto a 
>> firewire drive?  I know I can get SuSE on Intel to install from a USB 
>> CD-ROM by manually installing the appropriate drivers before 
>> continuing the install (needless to say, I had to boot from either a 
>> floppy or an ATAPI CD-ROM).
>> If not, then I can possibly remove the drive from the firewire case 
>> and install onto it as an ATAPI drive.
>> However, what I *really* want YDL for is to install it on a 20Gb 
>> drive that I can boot through the OpenBoot screen (hold the Opt key 
>> on boot) and have my iBook come up running YDL.  I have been able to 
>> clone my OSX install onto a firewire drive and can successfully boot 
>> to it, so I know there are no hardware limitations.  However, I'm 
>> sure hot-unplugging that drive would raise holy hell with the OS, but 
>> I'm smarter than that most of the time.
>> The next thing I want to do then, with this setup is to have my iBook 
>> stand in for our company server (XServe) while I'm upgrading it to 
>> YDL 3.0.1.  In case of emergency (failed update or something) I could 
>> also boot that XServe to that same external drive.  I like to plan 
>> for contingencies.
>> Has anyone tried or been able to (install to/boot from) an external 
>> firewire drive?
>> -Michael
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