B&W G3. No boot from old OS disk or YDL on hard drive, boots from YDL CD

[matthew dechant]

Norberto, thanks for responding.

One more time I did the default install, and let it configure the
partitions, which it set to:

/dev/hda1 = apple bootstrap 8mb
/dev/hda2 = /     extended partition 1500something MB
/dev/hda3 = SWAP 256MB

>From the open firmware cmd prompt:

Printenv

boot-device       /pci at 80000000/pci-bridge at d/pci-ata at 1/@0/disk at 0:1,\\:tbxi
hd:,\\:tbxi  

Which it is my understanding that it should have been changed from \\:tbxi
to yaboot, correct? But that you still should be able to manually boot into
YDL from here, and you can manually change the boot-device variable anyway.


The hard drive appears to be recognized, in the respect that if you do

Boot hd:0,yaboot

You get "LOAD-SIZE too small", and if you do:

Boot hd:4,yaboot

You get "couldn't locate partition"

But doing:

Boot hd:2,yaboot or boot hd:2,ofboot.b

Can't load yaboot or ofboot.b


I searched all over for additional commands, and even downloaded some
whitepapers on open firmware. I can't find a "ls" or "dir" command for OF,
so how can I really verify that yaboot is there?

-m


-----Original Message-----
From: yellowdog-newbie-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
[mailto:yellowdog-newbie-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] On Behalf Of
Norberto Quintanar
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 2:32 PM
To: Yellow Dog Linux Newbie List
Subject: Re: B&W G3. No boot from old OS disk or YDL on hard drive,boots
from YDL CD

try CMD-OPT-O-F to drop you into OF, and tell us what you get.

--- matthew dechant <> wrote:

> I have a related question. I asked this a while ago, and now I have 
> more info to add.
> 
> Blue and White G3.
> Boots off the YDL disks I made, find the hard drive, and appears to 
> install YDL, no problem.
> Won't boot to YDL upon restart. Only boots to open firmware prompt or 
> question mark if left alone.
> Tried an ATA IDE, SCSI, and regular IDE drive, no go.
> 
> More puzzling, and in reference to this thread, it also won't boot off 
> a purchased OS 9 CD, nor will it boot off a beige G3 install disk.
> Also tried
> a hard drive with operational OS 8.something I pulled from a beige G3. 
> All I get is the question mark.
> 
> Reset Pram more times than I want to count and pulled the battery 
> overnight.
> I also put new Ram in it.
> 
> I thought maybe (after some reading) that I needed to upgrade to 
> firmware on the machine, so that's when I tried to install a version 
> of OS, because it appears that you can't do it from a CD?? Is this 
> most likely the problem, firmware?
> 
> Is there something wrong with the machine maybe?
> 
> -matt
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: yellowdog-newbie-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> [mailto:yellowdog-newbie-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] On 
> Behalf Of yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 1:41 PM
> To: yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: [OT] - Downloadable Mac OS
> 
> Yeppers, I have an 8 disc and an 8.1 disc.  But since I am trying to 
> install YDL without a parallel mac os install I was hoping to do it 
> without the media they shipped with.  Hence my asking about free Mac 
> OS download; all free software would have been perfect.  I also have a 
> G3 specific CD for an iMac.  But I'm not interested in that....
> 
> --- yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:
> 
> > To me that suggests you have two licences to install Mac OS 8.0
> or
> > 8.1!
> > 
> > Eric.
> > 
> > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:47:29 -0700 (PDT):
> > 
> > > Thanks Clint, it's a G3/266 rev. 1 I've got an 8.0/8.1 disc,
> and
> > a G3
> > > Mac OS install disc.  Since I come from a Windows world I'm
> more
> > > familiar with the draconian EULA's that accompany PC's.


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