reboot after installation fails

[Tim Seufert]

On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 07:37  PM, Andreas Pack wrote:

> I forgot something to say ;)
>
> /dev/hde10 !was! my bootstrap-partition first. I read in the yaboot
> howto, that this partition should have the partition number 2.

It doesn't have to be number 2, but it is best to have it be the first 
bootable partition on the drive.  If Open Firmware's boot-device 
setting is incorrect, OF will scan all drives for bootable partitions 
and will boot the first one it finds.  By making the Linux bootstrap 
partition have as low a number as possible, you ensure that OF will 
boot from it rather than other partitions.

This all tends to be irrelevant on single-OS machines, because on them 
there is only a single bootable partition.