On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:44:54AM -0400, Sam Pogany wrote: > >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... > Agree, seems inconsistent. Is there a way to manually > reformat > bootstrap partition and reinstall those files? Am > thinking maybe > there was some hiccup with YDL installer. The rest of > the install > seems fine, I can do any Linux stuff I want once it's > booted > from the CD-ROM. mkofboot does the exact same thing as ybin, except it completly zeros the bootstrap partition before rebuilding the fs. > >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. > Did those things, boot-device setting now reads: > boot-device ultra1:,\\:tbxi hd:,\\:tbxi > (ie, there are 2 values on that line, only the first one > changed) the second is the OF default. try ultra1:2,\\:tbxi > > Here's the startup screen (blue): > > First stage Yellow Dog Linux bootstrap > Press l for Yellow Dog Linux > m for MacOS > x for MacOSX > c for CDROM > Stage 1 Boot: > > When I choose 'l', I get this (black screen): > > Can't open device </pci@80000000/pci-bridge@d/pci- > ata@1/@0/disk@1:0> yaboot tries to open the raw disk device here (equiv to /dev/hdb in unix) which actually I think it shouldn't be doing for the config file, it should only do this when its trying to read a non-apple partition. > /pci@80000000/pci-bridge@d/pci-ata@1/@0/disk@1:2,\ > \yaboot.conf: Unable to open file, Invalid device complains about previous error here. > Can't open config file > Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.11 > Enter "help" to get some basic usage information > boot: > > 'x' -- works, boots OSX > 'c' -- works, boots installer from CDROM > 'm' -- odd, screen blacks out for a second, then > returns to blue menu, no error something is wrong with the macos= boot entry it seems. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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