Booting Issues

[Kai Staats]

I have forwarded this thread to Bill of our team, author of the FW goodies to 
see if he can help. Not certain if he is on this list, but a similar thread 
has been in motion on the General list ... hold tight.

> Hi Chris, I'm new to this forum and I'm not sure I'm responding
> correctly by sending my message to this default address but guess
> I'll find out when it's posted:
>
> I installed YDL 4.1 on my external Firewire drive today and got the
> same results as you've described: after installation, when selecting
> linux at the yaboot prompt, I get diverted to open firmware which
> promptly freezes. I tried rebooting holding the Tab key down to get
> the graphic boot screen (I forget what it's called), selected the
> firewire drive, selected the arrow to continue and the results were
> the same.
>
> I had previously installed this distribution on a a second internal
> drive and it worked ok. I don't have a solution to the Firewire boot
> problem but was hoping that you might have figured something out. If
> you have, I'd be a happy camper if you would share it with me.
> Syd
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