YDL and firewire drive

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

You typed a space instead of a backslash after the comma. That should be
"boot fw/node/sbp-2/disk@0:2,\yaboot" at the "> " prompt, or
"boot fwx/node/sbp-2/disk@0:2,\yaboot" depending on which devalias points to
your ofpath.   HTH
-- 
"No gnu's is good gnu's."   --Gary Gnu, "The Great Space Coaster"


> From: Michael George <george@auroravideosys.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.yellowdog.general
> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:47:00 -0500
> Subject: Re: YDL and firewire drive
> 
> 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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> -Michael