Powerbook and boot from CD problem

[Jason Warm]

Andrew - Thanks much, you are a god send!  I had one friend (who shall 
remain nameless) who told me the PowerBook G3 was a NewWorld Mac.  I 
have been burning CD after CD thinking I was doing something wrong, my 
OS X CD and OS 9 cd would boot fine!  The steps you gave me worked like 
a charm.  That is till I got to the part about partitioning the drive.  
My original plan was to have no Mac OS at all.  I was going to use 
Druid to wipe it out and create only linux parts which obviously I 
can't do if this is old world.  So now I just have to wait until I get 
home so I can hip out OS 9 again and reformat the drive so Mac OS only 
has like 1 Gig (leaving 9 for linux).

Thanks again for the help,
Jason

On May 17, 2004, at 2:45 PM, Andrew wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 13:53, Jason Warm wrote:
>> I am trying to install YDL from downloaded iso files.  I have tried
>> burning the CD on both Mac and PC and the result is the same.  When I
>> boot into OS 9, the CD mounts fine and I am able to read it, but when 
>> I
>> hold down "C" to try to boot off the CD-ROM it fails everytime and
>> simply boots from the HD.  It does seem like it starts to read the CD,
>> but simply continues on to boot off the hard drive.
>>
>> Jason
>
> You must have a 'old world' Mac.. Install BootX to boot from the
> YellowDog CD.
>
> **INSTALL BOOTX***
> 1- unstuff the bootx_1.2.2.sit found into the 'boot' directory of the
> CD1
> 2- Put 'BootX' into the Control Panel and the bootx extention into the
> extention folder.
> 3- Create a new folder in the System Folder, name it 'Linux Kernels' I
> think this must be case sensitive.
> 4a- Put both kernels found on the 'boot' directory of the CD into 
> 'Linux
> kernels' folder. (vmlinux-xxxx and vmlinux-xxxx-BOOT)
> 4b- Copy 'ramdisk.image.gz' from the 'images' directory wherever you
> want it to be. I've put mine into the Linux Kernels folder..
> 5- reboot your mac.....
>
> ***CONFIGURE BOOTX***
> 1- You will meet the BootX box. Select 'vmlinux-xxxx-BOOT' from the
> pull-down menu.
> 2- Click 'Options...', check 'Use specified RAM Disk', click 
> 'Choose...'
> and select 'ramdisk.image.gz'. Exit the Options...
> 3- last step is to setup the video.. More than often, you can use the
> 'no video driver' Please use the net to find out what would be the
> proper line for you...
>
> Now you can click 'Linux' and the installer will show up. Installing
> YellowDog is quite straight forward. When done installing, you will be
> asked to reboot, make sure you use the vmlinux-xxxx kernel (NOT the one
> that end with -BOOT)
>
> Have fun!
>
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