re; imac cant boot

[Grant]

Anyone who writes such a good, clear and complete description deserves 
and answer - but a better one than mine :-)

So we know:

1) no hardware problems
2) yaboot begins its thing and in fact looks to a partition
3) at that point either:
	3a) the install is corrupt
	3B) or you're ppointing to the wrong partition.

So I would:
a) check the partition.  You need the ext2 or ext3 "regular linux" 
partition - not the bootloader partition nor the swap file partition.  
You can do this with pdisk if you can get OSX running (maybe from the 
CD?).  To do so, type, at the OSX prompt:

# = prompt

# pdsik
<you get a list of options>

Choose the one that *lists* but does not change, the map.
Print it out and keep it!

Rin ybin from the Linux boot cd (I dont really know how nor the syntax)

Grant

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On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 02:01 PM, 
yellowdog-newbie-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:

> From Ron McCy
>> It SHOULD do a YDL only boot pretty easily. You may have to specify 
>> NOT to
>> use yaboot - I think that specifier is in the installation somewhere.
>
> I'm totally newbie to YDL and Linux but after reading YDL guide I 
> understand yaboot is
> allways required to boot a PowerPC machine in linux. Even if you are 
> installing only YDL
> - not OS 9 or X at all.
>
> Anyway, I would like to give more details about my status:
>
> When power on the iMac, there is the screen sequence it shows:
>
> 1) A few seconds in 'gray', then show up the familiar 'folder' with 
> the 'happy os face'
>
> 2) Few seconds later, goes to a completelly black screen that says 
> something like:
>
> First Stage Yellow Dog Linux Bootsrap
> and 2 options to boot: "l" for linux and "C" for CD.
>
> 3) After few seconds or if press "L" before screen, it brings another 
> screen that says:
>
> Welcome to Yellow Dog Linux
> Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.6
> Enter "help" to get some basic usage information
> boot:
>
> If you type "help"  as soon as you can it says a long message and that 
> my "device" and
> "partno" are:
> device=/pci/mac-io/ide@20000/disk@0
> partition=8
>
> If you don't type nothing, it will try to boot "linux" and freeze in 
> message:
> Please wait, loading kernel.....
>
> As I remember from the install, my 'boot' partition is number 6 
> (remeber - I don't install
> Mac OS). So I figure out I must tell yaboot to use 6 instead of 8.
>
> So, using as a reference other message in this list, I type (after 
> "boot:")
> /pci/mac-io/ide@20000/disk@0:6,/boot/vmlinux
> and get the message: "Unknow or corrupt filesystem"
>
> If I try 7 instead of 6, it gives the same message: "Unknow or corrupt 
> filesystem"
>
> There is also the option of type "linux-novideo" but it also freeze 
> with system
> "Please wait, loading kernel..."
>
> So, I guess is something with yaboot.
> Can anybody help me on this?
>
> Regards,
> Gustavo Chirinos