On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 09:05:08AM -0500, matthew dechant wrote: > > Good morning, > > I need some pointing to a yaboot resource. I tried installing YDL on a > Blue/white G3. I've tried on both an IDE and SCSI hard drive. Both installs > proceeed without incident, but the machine will not boot to the yaboot menu > system. All I get is the flashing apple questionmark. > > I have reset the PRAM. > I have fully formatted both drives. > I have booted using cntl-opena-o-f and looked at the "printenv" variables. > What should be different after a successul install of YDL and yaboot, i.e., > what should the boot path be? > > With the IDE drive I got this: > /pci@80000000/pci-bridge@d/pci-ata@1/@0/disk@0.1, \\:tbxi are you sure this is what its set to? that doesn't look right, try: /pci@80000000/pci-bridge@d/pci-ata@1/@0/disk@0:1,\\:tbxi > I guess I need some overview of how yabot and open firmware work together to > boot up properly. sounds like buggy ydl installer. you did create the 800K Apple_Bootstrap partition right? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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