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

[David Hacker]

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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