YDL 3 yaboot not loading
Norberto Quintanar
yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:54:01 -0700 (PDT)
Open Firmware http://bananajr6000.apple.com/ can only boot off of HFS
partitions, I think. So you need at least a small HFS partition that
contains your kernel, yaboot.tbxi, and yaboot.conf. then you tell the
open firmware to boot like:
boot hd:x,\yaboot.tbxi
where x is the HFS partiton number, and of course the yaboot.conf
file being setup appropriately.
--- dhiraj.2.bhuyan@bt.com wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Although I finally managed to install YDL 3.0 on my iMac, the
> yaboot
> bootloader is not loading - I can only see the question mark. I am
> installing YDL 3 as the only operating system - I have the
> following disk
> partitions
>
> /dev/hda1 1 MB (Apple Bootloader)
> /dev/hda2 1280 MB (swap) (ext2)
> /dev/hda3 rest of space (77 GB) / (ext3)
>
> While installing I did get an option to choose -
>
> 1) yaboot bootloader
> 2) no bootloader
>
> I chose yahoot bootloader (I repeated the process twice - with the
> same
> result). Can anyone tell me where I could have gone wrong?
>
> A bios on an Intel motherboard has a virus protection feature which
> when
> enabled prevents anyone from writing to the MSB. Is there anything
> similar
> in a Mac? I have never used a mac before!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dhiraj Bhuyan
> Security Research Engineer
> BTexact
>
> Tel: +44 1473 643932
> Mob: +44 7753231984
> Email: dhiraj.2.bhuyan@bt.com
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