yaboot.conf (was soundcard)

Cian Duffy myob87 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 17 10:30:30 MST 2004


On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:26:21 +0000, Nigel Horne <njh at bandsman.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 17:30, Norberto Quintanar wrote:
> > --- Nigel Horne <njh at bandsman.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > yum update kernel didn't work for me, it said something like
> > > "boot configuration missing, can't upgrade" or something like that.
> > > rpm -qa | kernel showed both the old and new ones but the boot
> > > system
> > > only knew of the old one.
> > >
> > Go to this page scroll down  to:
> > Once I get my new kernel installed, how do I set my system to boot
> > from the new kernel?
> > <http://www.sharplabs.com:8668/space/Configuring+YDL/Kernel+Errors+and+Mac+On+Linux>
> >
> > It boils down to editing yaboot.conf
> 
> That only mentions 2.4. Does that matter?

Assuming you mean the howto (not displaying here, OSX and its bad DNS
issues), no. The yaboot.conf options are basically the same - point it
at the kernel image, initrd, etc; save; run /sbin/ybin; reboot.

Cian

> > Norberto
> 
> -Nigel
> 
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