three partitions two ATA controllers boot problem

mauro yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri, 09 May 2003 19:44:33 +0200


Ithink yaboot isn't the best way to instal YDL... it is better (in my
opinion) start with vmlinux kernel, with the ramimage checked... it will
drive you with anaconda that usually recognize the partitions and the
disks...
> Hello all
> 
> I just installed my new YDL 3 distro....as a complete newbie actually it
> went like a charm, the bug with more then 2 hard disc was touched
> immediately on the website so my problem with booting was gone too.
> 
> Having two hard discs in a G3 350 B&W Rev 1 with the bad ATA controller on
> board i had to buy a second Tempo66 card (also known as ACARD) to install an
> extra disc
> 
> I have on one disc OSX and Linux, on the other Disc ive installed the
> Classic OS, i was wondering how do i tell yaboot that "/dev/hdg6" its on a
> different device?!
> 
> A short Note
> I tried Mandrake 9.1 and SuSe ftp install they all failed on this particular
> machine with my attached hardware, at work all with G4's SuSe and mandrake
> functioned fine and booted into installer. At home YDL was the only one
> capable of recognizing my Advansys scsci card and having no problems with
> the extra Tempo66..so thumb up for Yellow Dog
> 
> My yaboot.conf:
> boot=/dev/hda10
> device=/pci@80000000/pci-bridge@d/pci-ata@1/@0/disk@0:
> init-message="Welcome to Yellow Dog Linux!\nHit <TAB> for boot options.\n\n"
> partition=11
> timeout=30
> install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
> magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
> default=linux
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4.20-8d
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda11
> read-only
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8d.img
> 
> macosx=/dev/hda9
> macos=/dev/hdg6 <-- this partition is on a different pci controller how do i
> tell yaboot this??
> defaultos=linux
> delay=10
> 
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