installing YDL vs NetBSD

[bruce woller]

Try to Reset Parameter RAM: =E2=8C=98 + Option + P + R
power off
power on with =E2=8C=98 + Option + P + R (yes all four keys) held down =
until =20
you hear the startup chimes twice (yes twice)
then hold dow the c key.  The YDL install cd should now boot from the =20=

internal CD ROM drive.

YMMV

On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 10:09  PM, admin@datazap.net wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The computer that I am trying to install it on is a G3 Blue & White. =20=

> From
> what I have read it is a new world machine. I was able to find some =20=

> docs
> on the how to find the correct path to the CD, but this didn't help =
me.
> However, I was able to find this infomation with the instruction from =20=

> the
> NetBSD site, but I can't find any docs on what to do with this info =
now
> that I have it. How do I tell yaboot where to find its config file? It
> looks like this could be done from the boot prompt. I just can't find =20=

> any
> docs that tell me how.
>
> Thanks,
> Al
>
>
> On 1 Jan 2004, K. Olaf Olson wrote:
>> 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 =20
>>> find a
>>> solution to it not booting from the installation cd. Feeling like =20=

>>> there
>>> has to be an easier way. I found my NetBSD install disk for =20
>>> port-macppc. I
>>> was then able to very quickly look at the install guide, and with a =20=

>>> little
>>> bit of playing with the open-firmware (it is alot like the boot =20
>>> prompt on
>>> a Sun), I was looking at the NetBSD installer (Which is not =20
>>> 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 =20
>>> firmware
>>> calls it cd drive, but I am still not able to over come the problem. =
=20
>>> If I
>>> hold down the 'C' key during boot, the system returns an error =20
>>> 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 =20=

>>> soon
>>> as it tries to find it root file system. In NetBSD it would then ask =
=20
>>> where
>>> is the root file system (linux doesn't do this), but it still would =20=

>>> 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 =20=

>>> would
>>> load a root file system into memory, and then tell the kernel where =20=

>>> 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 =20
>>> NetBSD on
>>> it. I think that I will be able to partition the drive with NetBSD. =20=

>>> So, I
>>> can't see a reason I would need Mac O/S.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Al
>>>
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