YDL 3 yaboot not loading

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I tried the following from the installer cd boot prompt -

boot: linux root=/dev/hda3

and it booted from the installed YDL without any problems. And then I did
/usr/sbin/ybin from room prompt and rebooted. And I still get the question
mark. The bootloader is not loading. Any clue?

Thanks in advance.

Dhiraj

-----Original Message-----
From: Norberto Quintanar [mailto:nquintanar@yahoo.com]
Sent: 08 August 2003 18:37
To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: RE: YDL 3 yaboot not loading


Try this to rerun ybin

Boot from the YDL 3.0 Install CD 1. Immediately hold the "c" key.
Once you get to boot options, type the following: 
cd-linux root=/dev/<linux root partition> [ENTER]

where <linux root partition> may be, for example, hda7 or sda6, but
without the < and >, then: 
/usr/sbin/ybin [ENTER] 

--- dhiraj.2.bhuyan@bt.com wrote:
> I checked that my first partition (/dev/hda1) is hfs. yaboot,
> yaboot.conf
> are in this partition.
> 
> From the Open Firmware prompt when I do -
> 
> 0> boot hd:1,yaboot
> 
> or
> 
> 0> boot hd:1,\\yaboot
> 
> or
> 
> 0> boot hd:1,\\:yaboot
> 
> I get the error "can't open: hd:1,...." message. I tried it with
> "yaboot,tbxi" too with the same result.
> 
> I tried running ybin (booted from installer CD, went to tty2
> command prompt
> and ran ybin) to recreate yaboot - without any good.
> 
> Now I am not sure what to do.
> 
> Any clues anyone?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dhiraj
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norberto Quintanar [mailto:nquintanar@yahoo.com]
> Sent: 08 August 2003 17:54
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: YDL 3 yaboot not loading
> 
> 
> 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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