installing YDL vs NetBSD

Fri Jan 2 20:06:01 2004

Hi,

I gave this a try, and it didn't change anything. Do you have any other
ideas?

Thanks,
Al

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, bruce woller wrote:

> Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 16:23:13 -0700
> From: bruce woller <bwoller@qwest.net>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: installing YDL vs NetBSD
>
> 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 un=
til
> you hear the startup chimes twice (yes twice)
> then hold dow the c key.  The YDL install cd should now boot from the
> 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.
> > From
> > what I have read it is a new world machine. I was able to find some
> > 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
> > 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
> > 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
> >>> 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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