On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:26:07PM -0400, Sam Pogany wrote:
> >do you actually get a yaboot boot: prompt?
> Yes, yaboot loads at startup. It's using the yaboot.conf
> file below because I get
> blue background.
no its not. there are two bootloader stages. stage1 is a small
pre-loader written in Forth, ybin builds this at install time and
hardcodes Forth commands to change the screen colors. when yaboot is
loaded by this first stage (which only occurs if you choose 'l') it
resets the colors to defaults and then to whatever is configured in
yaboot.conf after it sucessfully reads yaboot.conf.
since your screen turns black yaboot is clearly unable to read nor use
its config file.
> at black screen
> with this error message followed by:
> Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.11
> Enter "help" to get some basic usage information
> boot:
>
> This boot prompt is where I'm giving manual boot command below.
this makes no sense, clearly OF is capable of reading your slave
device since it sucessfully loads the first stage, and the first stage
successfully loads yaboot (second stage), but yaboot then cannot read
its config file from what seems to be a perfectly valid device path...
try resetting your nvram, and then resetting boot-device by hand
(since the reset will kill booting of your yaboot setup).
while holding down: command option p r cold boot the machine, keep
these keys down until the system reboots itself at least 3 times, then
press: command option o f
you should be dropped into OF at a 0 > prompt.
enter: setenv boot-device ultra1:\\:tbxi
boot
and see if that changes anything.
if possible take note of the exact error messages produced by yaboot
regarding the device it attempted to read its conf from.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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