How to boot ?

Thu, 3 Jul 2003 16:43:27 +0200

Hi  

> You will be able to select a few option, one of them is to mount your    
> Linux drive on /mnt/sysimage. When you do this it will allow you do    
> look at everything on your Linux drive/partition.  

Yes, i found my partition.  
They are all here : hda 1 to 8 : apple drivers and patches  
hda9 : apple_bootstrap (1Mo)  
hda10 : my OS 9 partition  
hda11 : swap  
hda12 : my linux partition  

editing yaboot.conf gives me :  
boot = unconfigured  
init-message = welcome...  
defaultos = linux  
delay = 10  
default=Linux  
timeout50  

image=/boot/vmlinux  
root = /dev/hda3  
label = linux  
read-only  

Then, I changed manually the values to :  

boot = /dev/hda9  
init-message = welcome...  
defaultos = linux  
delay = 10  
default=Linux  
timeout50  

image=/boot/vmlinux  
root = /dev/hda12  
label = linux  
read-only  

I tried all utilities about yaboot :  
yabootconfig (used to create yaboot.conf file, but doesn't work)  
mkofboot -b /dev/hda9 -C yaboot.conf (supposed to initializes bootstrap  
partition) : no error, seems to work  
ybin -b /dev/hda9 -C yaboot.conf : no error  

(I've found documentation here :  
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/yaboot-howto.html/index.en.html)  

But, after all of this, my ibook boot in OS 9.  
L key doesn't work, even after zapping pRam.  

> By the way, have you tried this:  
>   
> http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/   
> boot_functions.shtml  

Yes, this was the first thing I tried. It said that if I have bootstrap before  
my partition (what I have), I just have to zap pRam 5 times to make things  
works...  

Some questions :  
- I 've formatted with OS 9 and installed OS 9 (keeping an empty partition for  
YLD). Then I have booted on YLD CD and installed linux.  
Maybe should start by installing Linux ? Leaving an empty partition for OS 9 ?  

- Do I have to work on my open firmware ? 

-any other suggestions ? 

regards, 