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scott
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PostPosted: Thu May 02, 2002 2:29 pm    Post subject: Yaboot error Reply with quote

i have done all that is says to do and i can boot into macos 9.2
but when i try to boot into gentoo i get a default catch error
and when i run ybin
i get a waring: /dev/nvram does not exist
warning: nvram will not be updated

any ideas im so close to getting it working it driving me crazy
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PostPosted: Thu May 02, 2002 5:32 pm    Post subject: yaboot problem Reply with quote

There was a report of a similar error a few days ago on the ppc mailing list. The user then discovered that his bootstrap partition had not been initialised. The first time you set up yaboot, you need to run
Code:
mkofboot -v
to initialise the partition. Subsequently ybin will suffice to copy over new settings.

My install guide for ppc skipped over this initially (my apologies - many of us are re-using the bootstrap partition from a debian, suse, mandrake or linuxppc install, so we don't need this step) - it's now been fixed.

note: all ppc doc updates will now be on the main gentoo site, not the ppc site.

David
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