yaboot boots os x, not linux, b&w g3

[Jeffrey Bruton]

I repartitioned before installing ydl a second time, so as far as I  
could tell via the clues (checkmarks) in the graphical installer,  
yaboot was installed to the main hd, and / and swap to the second  
drive. since yaboot works for os x as it should but fails while trying  
to boot, it does not know the correct device path to /, wouldn't that  
be correct?

I found some yaboot documentation on penguinppc.org, there it states OF  
commands as follows

name          device type
-------           ---------------
hd                internal ide drive (primary controller, master disk)
ultra1          internal ide drive (primary controller, slave disk)
ide0            ide drive (secondary controller, master disk)
ide1            ide drive (secondary controller, slave disk)
cd                cdrom
zip               zip drive
fw                firewire interface
fd                 floppy drive
enet            ethernet interface

the drive with root is on the secondary controller, and jumpered as  
master, or ide0

I have tried many variations at the boot prompt where I am left after  
yaboot prints the error message, I will to go through them again and  
document what variations on a path-to-kernel I have tried.

I know I was unsuccessful with the following entered at the boot prompt:

ide0:2,/vmlinux root=/dev/hdb2


On Jun 30, 2004, at 9:49pm, David Hacker wrote:

> If you repartitioned the drive then the partiton numbers are different  
> so yaboot is looking in the wrong place now.  Try booting from the cd  
> by typing linux root=/dev/????  where ???? is the drive and partiton  
> of your YDL install.  It is hard to tell from the pdisk info whether  
> the rdisk1 disk is an ata disk or a USB disk.  if it is on ata then it  
> is probably hdb2 if it is a USB disk then it is probably sda2.  Once  
> you get booted run ybin -v as root from a terminal and then try  
> rebooting with yaboot.
> Good Luck,
> David C. Hacker, DVM
> On Jun 30, 2004, at 10:30 PM, Jeffrey Bruton wrote:
>
>> yaboot will boot os x, but if I type an "l" at the prompt it prints  
>> the following
>>
>> /pci@8000000/pci-bridge@d/Ultra-Tek100P@4/0,0:2,/bootvmlinux-2.4.22 
>> -2f: Unable to open file, Invalid device.
>>
>> I used carbon copy cloner to clone my working os x to the drive  
>> attached to the Ultra-Tek ide controller, it booted just fine. For  
>> some reason it would not work for yaboot.
>>
>> I repartitioned my main drive, allocating free space for the apple  
>> bootstrap partition and the rest to os x, cloned os x back, installed  
>> ydl, seemed to go fine. I have been reading about openfirmware, but  
>> this seems to be a yaboot problem, no? I am left with a "boot:"  
>> prompt. I am confused as to what path might be appropriate here, or  
>> what other steps to take. I did manage to provide a pdisk dump below  
>> (something new to me, cool)
>>
>> jbg3:~ jb$ sudo pdisk /dev/rdisk0 -dump
>> /dev/rdisk0  map block size=512
>>    #:                 type name                  length   base      (  
>> size )
>>    1:  Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @ 1
>>    2:      Apple_Bootstrap untitled                2048 @ 64        (  
>>  1.0M)
>>    3:           Apple_Free Extra                 268288 @ 2112       
>> (131.0M)
>>    4:            Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_3 119832784 @ 270400     
>> ( 57.1G)
>>    5:           Apple_Free Extra                     16 @ 120103184
>>
>> Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=120103200
>> DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
>>
>> jbg3:~ jb$ sudo pdisk /dev/rdisk1 -dump
>> /dev/rdisk1  map block size=512
>>    #:                 type name                 length   base     (  
>> size )
>>    1:  Apple_partition_map Apple                    63 @ 1
>>    2:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled           22240448 @ 64       (  
>> 10.6G)
>>    3:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                3144960 @ 22240512 (   
>> 1.5G)
>>
>> Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=25385472
>> DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
>>
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