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

[Olaf Olson]

This looks familiar. I think you'll find that your /etc/yaboot.conf file 
doesn't have a line in it for linux. It happened to me, the same way. I 
can't recall what the old yaboot.conf looked like, but this is what it 
shows now:

boot=/dev/hda10
device=/pci@80000000/pci-bridge@d/pci-ata@1/@0/disk@0:
init-message="Welcome to Yellow Dog Linux!\nHit <TAB> for boot options.\n\n"
partition=13
timeout=30
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
default=linux

image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4.22-2a
        label=linux
        root=/dev/hda13
        read-only
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-2a.img

macosx=/dev/hda9
defaultos=linux
delay=10
enablecdboot


That should get you to something that you'll recognize. Of course, use 
your partition numbers instead of mine, and run ybin when complete. ybin 
-v will tell you more about what it did.

Good Luck,

Olaf



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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