installing YDL vs NetBSD

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Hi,

After playing with yaboot, and reading through the archive for this
mailling. Then doing some searching with google. I was unable to find a
solution to it not booting from the installation cd. Feeling like there
has to be an easier way. I found my NetBSD install disk for port-macppc. I
was then able to very quickly look at the install guide, and with a little
bit of playing with the open-firmware (it is alot like the boot prompt on
a Sun), I was looking at the NetBSD installer (Which is not graphical but
gets the job done just the same, and works about the same on all
platform).

In the process of doing this I was able to find what the open firmware
calls it cd drive, but I am still not able to over come the problem. If I
hold down the 'C' key during boot, the system returns an error saying that
it can't open yaboot.conf. It is looking for yaboot.conf at:
/pci@80000000/pci-bridge@d/mac-io@5/ata-3@20000/disk@0:2,yaboot.conf

But if I tell yaboot:
/pci/@d/mac-io/ata-3@20000/disk@0:0,boot/vmlinux-2.4.22-2fBOOT
it then starts the boot process. Of course it has a kernel panic as soon
as it tries to find it root file system. In NetBSD it would then ask where
is the root file system (linux doesn't do this), but it still would not
fix the problem because there isn't one to find.

I am not sure how to tell yaboot where yaboot.conf is. So, that it would
load a root file system into memory, and then tell the kernel where it is
(just remember I don't have the Mac O/S install disks).

Also, I would like to have a dual boot system with both YDL and NetBSD on
it. I think that I will be able to partition the drive with NetBSD. So, I
can't see a reason I would need Mac O/S.

Thanks,
Al