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Re: yaboot not boot (macosx dual boot config with fedora)



On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 12:38:24AM -0700, haalaa luu wrote:
> sh-3:mkdir /tmp/mnt
> sh-3:mount -t hfsplus /dev/sdb2 tmp/mnt
> (or)
> sh-3:mount -t hfs -o ro /dev/sdb2 /tmp/mnt
> 
> gave me no such directory or device cannot mount

probably no hfs support.

> 1>printenv boot-device
> -----Partition:common-----Signature:0x70-------
> boot-device  /k2-sata@0/disk@0:2, \\:tbxi hd:,\\:tbxi

unless this path is wrong nvram seems to be getting updated correctly.

> sh-3:nano /etc/yaboot.conf
> #yaboot.conf generated by anaconda
> boot=/dev/sdb2
> init-message=Welcome to Fedora Core\!
> Hit<TAB>for boot options
> partition=3
> timeout=80
> unstall=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
 ^^^ eh?

> delay=5
> enablecdboot
> enableofboot
> enablenetboot
> macosx=/dev/sda3
> magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
> image=/boot/rmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
> label=linux
> read-only
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
> append="video=ofonly rhgb quiet root=LABEL=/"
> 
> sh-3:/sbin/ybin -v
> ybin:Finding OpenFirmware device path to '/dev/sdb2'
> ybin:Finding OpenFirmware device path to '/dev/sdb3'
> Installing first stage bootstrap
> /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot onto /dev/sdb2
> Installing Primary bootstrap /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
> onto /dev/sdb2
> Installing /etc/yaboot.conf onto /dev/sdb2
> setting attributes on ofboot
> setting attributes on yaboot
> setting attributes on yaboot.conf
> Blessing /dev/sdbs with Holy Penguin Pee
> Updating Openfirmware boot-device variable in nvram
> 
> sh-3:nano /etc/fstab
> /dev/sdb3		/		ext3		defaults	1	1
> /dev/devpts	/devpts	devpts	gid=5,mode=620	0	0
> /dev/shm		/dev/shm		tmpfs	defaults	0	0
> /dev/proc		/proc		proc		defaults	0	0
> /dev/sdb5		/raw		vfat		defaults	0	0
> /dev/sys		/sys		sysfs		defaults	0	0
> /dev/sdb4		swap	swap	defaults	0	0
> 
> still can't boot yet, thks for helpin me.

it looks to me like everything is working correctly, only real
possibility I can think of is that ofpath is returning erroneous
device pathes.  thats not easy to diagnose though.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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