YDL 3.01 on Second partition?

[Tony Clark]

All done now; booted from the install disk and re-started linux with 
device options from a single user boot of OSX and reconfigured the 
yaboot as per yours.  All is now well, and I have a happy 12" powerbook 
running YDL.

Many thanks to all who helped me to get this together.

Tony

On 02/01/2004, at 11:43 PM, Harvey Ussery wrote:

>
> Tony,   I haven't been following this thread closely so not exactly 
> sure if you are New World. If you are Old World, I can't help you, and 
> you should discount what follows.
> (1) The usual caveats: When you're doing configuration at the level of 
> yaboot you're making very basic changes & can screw things up royally 
> if you're not careful.
> (2) You will of course be working as root in order to make changes to 
> yaboot.conf.
> (3) Do not proceed until you have read this tutorial on yaboot--it's 
> the best place on the subject to start that I know of:
> http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/yaboot-howto.shtml/
>
> Tony Clark wrote:
>
>> Excellent; I followed the instructions and deleted the second  
>> partition.  After a bit of fiddling to make it boot from the CD 
>> again,  I successfully installed YDL on the old 10GB partition by 
>> using the  'use free space' option.  The only remaining issue is that 
>> yaboot  didn't have the MacOSX partition in its config, so to boot 
>> back into  OSX I had to use the startup DVD which has probably 
>> trashed the yaboot  in firmware.  As I know nothing (yet) of YDL, can 
>> someone please point  me at how I'd configure yaboot to see the OSX 
>> partition and then how I  might re-flash with the yaboot config?
>
> (4) Here is a copy of the relevant parts of my /etc/yaboot.conf:
>
> [harvey@dawg harvey]$ cat /etc/yaboot.conf
> boot=/dev/hda2
> device=/pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/disk@0:
> init-message="Welcome to Yellow Dog Linux!\nHit <TAB> for boot 
> options.\n\n"
> timeout=300
> install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
> magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
> default=ydl
>
> image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4.20-8e
>        label=ydl
>        partition=4
>        root=/dev/hda4
>        read-only
>        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8e.img
>        append="hdb=ide-scsi"
>
> macosx=/dev/hda3
> delay=30
> enablecdboot
> enableofboot
>
> #Remember to run ybin!!!
> [harvey@dawg harvey]$
>
> I have deliberately omitted parts of it for simplicity (I actually 
> have an older ydl kernel configured, plus a Debian & a Gentoo install, 
> in addition to the OSX install), but it gives you the idea for 
> config'ng macosx to be presented as a boot option when you first boot 
> up. >>Note especially the line near the bottom:  macosx=/dev/hda3
>
> (5) Note also the commented line at the end:   #Remember to run 
> ybin!!!  If you don't run ybin after your re-configure, the changes 
> will not be written/configured.
>
> (6) If you are just writing yaboot.conf for a simple ydl/macosx dual 
> boot, I would actually write the yaboot.conf a little differently from 
> the above. But a thorough reading of the tutorial I gave you the link 
> to should give you all the info you need for doing your own specific 
> config. If you have questions, just re-post.
>
> Hope this helps--good luck.    --Harvey
>
>>
>
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