yaboot on iMac 333mhz

[Gavin Hemphill]

The default catch problem doesn't actually have anything to do with YDL. 
  It turns out that certain printers with built in multi card readers 
(mine was an epson stylus photo R300) will cause that catch on certain 
machines (in my case a TIPB) without even having YDL installed.

Felix Jodoin wrote:

> Well, for me my problem's a bit more, shall we say, interesting; Same 
> setup (but /dev/hda9, not 14) But I have 10.3.3 and if I run ybin and 
> reboot I get
> in an open firmware like screen:
> Default catch at 0x000e3f (not at all for the binary part, but you get 
> the picture). I then have to boot of a mac cd and reselect my mac os x 
> drive to make my system usable. As for booting of a disc, MAKE SURE THE 
> DISC VERSION MATCHES THE INSTALLED VERSION. I type:
> linux rescue root=/dev/hda9
> And it goes great. I am using 3.0.
> 
> On 11-Apr-04, at 10:16 PM, David C. Hacker, DVM wrote:
> 
>> I just installed YDL on my iMac 333 (5 flavors).  The install went 
>> fine but I can't boot from yaboot.  It hangs after Please wait, 
>> loading kernel...
>> I can boot from the install CD by typing linux root=/dev/hda14.  I 
>> tried running ybin again once I was booting and then yabootconf, but 
>> neither one would fix the problem so I could boot from the hard drive. 
>>  Same thing occurs with other linux distros.  I installed from the 
>> newest 3.0.1 iso's.  I did install OS X 10.2.8 at one time, but 
>> according to the website the 3.01 version takes care of that.
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>> David
>>
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