What gives?

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

D'oh!! In an earlier post, you said that OS9 is on hda11 and OSX is on
hda13, but here you have them the other way around! Also, if I were you I
would change the second line to simply "device=hd:" and add "enableofboot"
to the end.

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:45:05 -0400, GDB-B&W-YDL3.0.1 wrote:

> Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> 
>>OK, I don't know what ASVP means, but the boot-args supplies arguments to
>>the boot-loader. Yaboot doesn't use it, but perhaps Mac OS ROM and BootX
>>do? What happens if you specify the "brokenosx" option in yaboot.conf and
>>rerun ybin -v?
>>
> I did as you suggested.  I wasn't sure where to install the brokenosx 
> option (the man page just said under global options) but here is my 
> yaboot.conf:
> 
>> boot=/dev/hda9
>> device=/pci at 80000000/pci-bridge at d/pci-ata at 1/@0/disk at 0:
>> init-message="Welcome to Yellow Dog Linux!\nHit <TAB> for boot 
>> options.\n\n"
>> brokenosx
>> partition=10
>> timeout=30
>> install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
>> magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
>> default=linux
>>
>> image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4.22-2f
>>     label=linux
>>     root=/dev/hda10
>>     read-only
>>     append="hde=ide-scsi"
>>
>> macosx=/dev/hda11
>> macos=/dev/hda13
>> defaultos=macosx
>> delay=10
>> enablecdboot
> 
> Ran ybin -v and then did the nvsetenv command to see what had changed if 
> anything.  Seems the boot-device changed to the same as given in my 
> yaboot.conf file.  Rebooted into OSX and ran the nvram -p to see if 
> anything had changed and noticed that the boot-device had changed back 
> to hd:,\\:tbxi.  Rebooting from OSX caused the usual system hang and I 
> had to zap the PRAM again.  In reading the man pages I see this 
> brokenosx option deals with installing OSX on a HFS+ partition, but I 
> thought that was the norm.  I wasn't aware that it could be installed on 
> a UFS or that I should have?  And where did the 
> device=/pci at 80000000/pci-bridge at d/pci-ata at 1/@0/disk at 0: come from in the 
> yaboot.conf file?  I thought hd:,\\:tbxi was what this was supposed to 
> be.  Before I forget, thank you Daniel for your help in this matter. 
>  I'm not sure why, but I always seem to find the machines that don't 
> conform to the norm for some strange reason ;-)
> 
> Just a message from Doug...
> 
> 
> 
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