Installed everything but boots into Mac OS

detz · Apprentice Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 175

I got everything install and walked through all the steps but when I reboot it comes up with the ? folder then finds the Mac partition and boots that. I tried booting to the firmware page but I didn't know what to type when I got there, tried boot hda1, yaboot and boot hda2, yaboot but it didn't work. I think what might have went wrong is my partition for the boot should be 1 but in the yaboot i put hda2. How can I get in there an change that if I can't boot into linux. I can boot from the cd but I can't figure out how to get to the HD from there to edit the conf file. Any information would be appreciated, I'm really looking forward to getting this up and running soon!

zojas · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 3:35 pm Post subject:

boot from the livecd, follow the part of the install instructions where you mount all your filesystems and /proc, then chroot. then you can adjust your yaboot settings and run 'ybin -v' again. then exit the chroot, unmount all your hard drive partitions and reboot from the hard drive.
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Immortal Q · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:21 pm Post subject:

This problem tends to come up if you use the "startup disk" preference panel in OSX - selecting your OSX drive there tends to bypass yaboot completely. Try holding down the 'x' key when you start up - that should present you with an open-firmware generated list of all the partitions you can boot to. Once you get back into Linux, do the ybin -v thing just to make sure it sticks.

(I'm pretty sure it's X - someone want to check/confirm?)
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detz · Apprentice Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 175

well holding down x didn't do anything but boot into Mac and I tried to boot the cd again and I mounted everything like is says in the instructions but it wont let me chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash says /bin/bash no such file or directory. next??

detz · Apprentice Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 175

After reading some other stuff I guess I installed yaboot on partition 1 which is the apple bootstrap so it wont work. Now I need to reconfigure it but I can't get into it to do it still. Also, my swap partition is hda2 will that have an effect if I boot of that?

selket · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 8 Location: Marburg, Lahn

Hi

/dev/hda1 -> Partition map
/dev/hda2 -> NewWorld bootblock

You need these both entries in your partition-map to succed in booting into the yaboot bootmanager.
In yaboot.conf the first entry must set to /dev/hda2

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selket · n00b Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 8 Location: Marburg, Lahn

The first /dev/hdaX you can choose for swap would be 3.

BlueShift · Posted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 3:39 pm Post subject: