Lost YDL boot

[Greg Hamilton]

Boot into Debian and mount hda4. Check the YDL yaboot.conf file. It 
should contain an entry something like this:

image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4.22-2d
         label=linux
         root=/dev/hda4
         read-only
         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-2d.img

Copy that to your Debian /etc/yaboot.conf, change the 'label=linux' to 
something like maybe 'label=ydl'. Then, the all important step that you 
may perhaps have forgotten, run /usr/sbin/ybin.

Now reboot. When the yaboot message is displayed you should have the 
options linux(Debian), ydl, macos. Or something like that.  Apologies 
in advance if this is incorrect, but I'm quietly confident that this 
will solve the problem.

I'd be interested to know how Debian PPC compares to YDL too. Debian is 
my preferred x86 distro, mainly because of the package management 
system, but I haven't used it on a Mac.

Greg

On 21/11/2003, at 6:11 AM, Harvey Ussery wrote:

> Decided to give DebianPPC (3.0 Woody) a try. Set up partitioning "by 
> the book" using the MacOSX disk tools to make free space for Linux 
> partitions as well as for OSX. Re-installed YDL3.0 on partition 
> "carved out" of the free space. Both YDL & OSX up & running, no boot 
> problems.
>
> Installed Deb on another new partition. Successful install; but after 
> Deb was on the system, only boot options are Deb & OSX. No prob at all 
> booting either, but ydl just doesn't show up in yaboot as an option. 
> It's still all there, of course--I've checked the partition map, and 
> everything is where it shd be.
>
> I've tried:
> *Typing OpenFirmware style boot commands (though not sure I used the 
> right format)   hd4:,/vmlinux     hd4: root=/dev/hda4     etc. I get 
> the return: "hda4  No such file or dir"
> *Re-config'g the /etc/yaboot.conf file within Debian, trying to pass 
> it a kernel image for booting into ydl on hda4 (and placing that image 
> before the backup image for debian)
> *Booting into the ydl install CD & going as far as partitioning in the 
> install process, using pdisk to delete boot partition hda2 & then 
> adding a new hda2 as an Apple_Bootstrap partition. [But don't know if 
> that would get applied if I didn't continue thru the entire install 
> process--I did not.]
>
> Anybody got any pointers for getting back into ydl? If so, PLEASE help 
> me avoid a p.i.a everything-reinstall!   Many thanks.    --Harvey
>
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