yellowdog-newbie Digest, Vol 7, Issue 8

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I had the same problem on my clamshell iBook.  The old cdrom won't read 
CDR/RWs.  Nobody seems to address this issue anywhere, but I was able to 
come up with an ugly hack...

Okay, I made a 100mb HFS partition at the beginning of the disk, and 
called it bootstrap.  I copied the kernel, the ramdisk image, yaboot, 
and yaboot.conf there.  You have to edit the paths in the yaboot.conf to 
point to your new partition, as in hd:,vmlinux etcetera.

Then boot to OpenFirmWare, and type boot hd:,yaboot.  You will then boot 
into the installer on the ramdisk, and can do a network install.

I have a Firewire CDRW, but the installer doesn't give you the option to 
install from a Firewire drive, and I cannot boot from the CDRW :(

I have used this method to install Yellowdog 4, Debian, and NetBSD just 
fine.  Maybe Fedora PPC too at one point...

Good luck!  Let me know if you need a yaboot.conf, I may have one somewhere.

Linc



yellowdog-newbie-request at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:

> Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:10:15 -0500
> From: Kenneth Browne <kbrowne at alumni.umass.edu>
> Subject: Re: CD isn't booting
> To: Yellow Dog Linux Newbie List
> 	<yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
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> jcaldwel at purdue.edu wrote:
> 
>>I know this has been beat to death but I can't find anyting on my particular
>>problem. What I have is the Blue and White G3. The YDL 4.0 CD doesn't boot when
>>I hold C. I can get into the Open Firmware (it is version 3.1.1) using CMD
> 
> 
> Another possibility? Did you properly burn the ISO image. Folks have 
> been know to just copy the image to a cd which won't cut it.
> 
>