On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:48:09PM +0800, Terence Parker wrote: > I'm trying to get my G5 system to dual-boot linux & Mac OS X (the > usual story I guess), except that i'm having some problems getting into > OS X. > > Contrary to most documentation about yaboot, in my setup I have OS X in > my first SATA drive (dev/sda3 - for some odd reason) and have installed > linux on my secondary SATA drive (/dev/sdb5). My yaboot.conf is as > follows: > > boot=/dev/sdb2 > device=/ht@0,f2000000/pci@7/k2-sata-root@c/k2-sata@1/disk@0: > timeout=20 > default=macosx this is invalid, there is no kernel with a label=macosx your looking for defaultos=macosx > install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot > magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot > > image=/boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r8 > label=Linux > partition=5 > root=/dev/sdb5 > read-only > > macosx=hd:3 > > Most of this was auto-created by the yabootconfig script, but I > manually shuffled some options around and have added the macosx=hd:3 > option. I have also tried specifying macosx=/dev/sda3 - also did not > work. define 'did not work' > Though I don't know how this works, I am guessing that it's trying to > boot OS X off the same "device" that was defined for my Linux OS and nope, device= is irrelevant for OS != linux. > therefore that's why it can't find it? I get an error saying 'invalid > or corrupt image' (I can't remember the exact error) - but I do see the because yaboot is trying to load a linux kernel called 'macosx' which does not exist anywhere. (see above). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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