installing YDL vs NetBSD

[K. Olaf Olson]

Al,

I must have missed the earlier posting, where you told us all what Mac
on which you were trying to install YDL. It DOES make a difference, as
to whether you can actually boot from the CD. If you have an Old World
Mac, ie anything older than the blue G3 (and some of those, too, I
believe), you can't boot from the CD. Apple won't let you do this. The
procedures outlined for Old World Macs describe the procedure you MUST
use.

Of course, if I missed your posting and you DO have a New World Mac,
there's another problem.

Olaf


On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 01:27, admin@datazap.net wrote:
> 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
> 
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