Can't boot into Fedora. Help!!

[Brian Gilman]

Ah,

	OK. This is making a lot more sense now. However, it looks like I get  
a kernel panic when I reboot. I'll investigate further and see why.

								-B
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On Sep 11, 2004, at 9:07 AM, Rene Salmon wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
>
> Try this
>
> 1) boot off the fedora install cd you used to install and at the boot  
> prompt
> type
>
> boot: mac rescue
>
> 2)after you boot from the CD and you get a shell type
>
>> chroot /mnt/sysimage
>
> 3)now all you need to do is something like this
>
> ln -s /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.xxxx /boot/vmlinuz
>
> then edit your /etc/yaboot.conf file and make sure you are booting
> the right partition.
>
> if you make any changes to /etc/yaboot.conf the run
>> ybin
>
> All this is explained in detail with nice tables and all  on
> http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/ibook/fedorappc.html
>
> on that page just follow steps 13-to the end.
>
> hope it helps
> Rene
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 02:23:41AM -0400, Brian Gilman wrote:
>>
>> Hey Guys,
>>
>> 	So, I got fedora installed (finally). I restart the machine and get
>> the following error:
>>
>> 	/pci@f200000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/disk@0:3,/boot/vmlinux no suck
>> 	file or directory
>>
>> 	Looks like:
>> 	
>> 	a) /boot/vmlinux really doesn't exist and I need to specify a new
>> kernel?
>> 	b) Yaboot is pointing to the wrong partition?
>> 	c) open firmware needs an update?
>>
>> 	Please help! I'm at my wits end here!
>>
>> 						Best,
>>
>> 								-B
>> --  
>> Brian Gilman
>> President Panther Informatics Inc.
>> 9 Acadia Park #2
>> Somerville, MA 02143
>> Phone 617-335-8276 (Cell)
>> 	   617-395-7916 (Lan)
>> E-Mail: gilmanb@pantherinformatics.com
>>         gilmanb@jforge.net
>> AIM: gilmanb1
>>
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>> 01001001 01101110 01100110
>> 01101111 01110010 01101101
>> 01100001 01110100 01101001
>> 01100011 01101001 01100001
>> 01101110
>>
>> On Sep 9, 2004, at 8:26 PM, Ryan Nix wrote:
>>
>>> Correct, you need to specify the / point.
>>>
>>> There is no autopartitioning to speak of yet, however, when you setup
>>> your drive, click on edit and specify your largest partition to be  
>>> the
>>> / point.
>>>
>>>
>>> Brian Gilman wrote:
>>>
>>>> Where do I do that? Do you mean specify the root ie. /  point? Do I
>>>> do this with disk druid or can I use autopartitioning?
>>>>
>>>>                            Best,
>>>>
>>>>                                    -B
>>>
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