Booting Issues

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Chris:
I found it helpful to refer to a document regarding Openfirmware which  
I found here:

www.terrasoftsolutions.com/news/2005/linux-user/power-to-the-people/ 
spread.pdf

I'm not an engineer and have gone as far as I can regarding what  
possibilities I can think of.  I'm sure others will step forward to  
address the issues you are bringing up.

Good Luck ...

On Mar 22, 2006, at 8:21 PM, Christopher Nunu wrote:

> All right I think I know what's wrong. For some reason, after the  
> yaboot prompt to load YDL, OpenFirmware loads as well and freezes. I  
> think I remember reading about, if Linux is not the first partition on  
> the hard drive, this could happen. Could it be that the same thing is  
> happening because YDL is installed on an external hard drive? If so,  
> is there a way to boot from my firewire drive while in OpenFirmware?  
> I've already tried holding down option+command+z+delete to bypass the  
> internal hard drive but apparently it doesn't work in Panther. I'm  
> thinking that is I start up in OpenFirmware by holding  
> command+option+o+f, and then tell it to boot from the firewire disk,  
> then when I get to the yaboot prompt and press "l", OpenFirmware won't  
> override it and freeze on me. What do you think? The only reason I  
> haven't tested this theory yet is because I don't know the command to  
> boot from a FireWire disk in OpenFirmware since I am not familiar with  
> it.
>
> I hope this is helpful. We seem to be making some progress.
>
> Thank you again,
> -Chris