yaboot on iMac 333mhz

Felix Jodoin yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon Apr 12 17:37:01 2004


Yes, but it seems that only happens after running ybin; I believe it's  
a fault of MacOS, but what can I do to fix it? Will unplugging the  
printer be sufficient (hp Deskjet 3320)?
Thanks, AliasN

On 12-Apr-04, at 4:50 PM, Gavin Hemphill wrote:

> 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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