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Re: G5 PowerMac dual-boot



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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