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 Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:04 pm Post subject: Gentoo 2006.1 on Secondary IDE drive |
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I have been trying with no luck to install Gentoo on my MDD Dual 867's SECONDARY hard drive.
I don't want to mess up my OSX installation, but rather i want the ability to boot off of the second the hard drive with Gentoo installed like i used to do with YDL. With YDL, i didn't even install a boot loader on the MBR, i used open firmware to boot linux.
When i run "mac-fdisk -l" it only lists the primary drive (hda). I can't seem to find the other drive at all. I partitioned the other drive with FREE SPACE using OSX Disk Utility.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. |
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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JoseJX
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| Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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At the command line, type:
And post the results.
There's nothing that would prevent you from using Gentoo on a second drive, but we need to figure out why you can't see it. How is it attached? Are you sure you've loaded the proper driver?
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convert
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, good news is i figured out the installation. Bad news is, i just boot to a white screen now  I think i wiped openfirmware or something. PLEASE HELP! |
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convert
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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ok, relief... i fixed it by zapping the pram.
Now, i try to boot into os x, it works fine... but i want to try Gentoo.
I drop into OF and type boot ata-6@d,boot\yaboot
something starts happening: the screen goes a shade darger, some text starts to come up in the bottom-left corner of the screen, then i get presented with a circle with a slash through it.
What does that mean? |
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convert
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Can anyone tell me how to fix this yaboot issue (i think it is) through open firmware? Do i have to reinstall the whole thing again or is there a quick fix that i can do? |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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| convert wrote: | | Can anyone tell me how to fix this yaboot issue (i think it is) through open firmware? Do i have to reinstall the whole thing again or is there a quick fix that i can do? |
You can fix your bootloader by chrooting into your new system after booting the live CD. |
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convert
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| How do i do this? My gentoo is installed on /dev/hdc. How to a chroot to that? |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:07 am Post subject: |
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| convert wrote: | | How do i do this? My gentoo is installed on /dev/hdc. How to a chroot to that? |
First boot the liveCD:
Then mount your partition(s) (mount /dev/hdc /mnt/gentoo). Then chroot into /mnt/gentoo (chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash) and then don't forget to run env-update and source /etc/profile .
These steps are described in two different parts of the handbook (the first being in "Preparing the Disks" and the second being in "Installing the Gentoo Base System").[/code] |
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convert
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| Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| ok, i guess this goes back to my original post... now how do i start yaboot from OF?? Remember, gentoo is on a separate hd. |
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JoseJX
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| Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:09 am Post subject: |
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ndansmith suggested that you use the LiveCD. You don't need to start yaboot to do this. Doing it this way is easier than trying to figure out what went wrong with your install and yaboot configuration.
Once you've booted into the LiveCD and chrooted in, it would be helpful if you could post your yaboot.conf, along with the disk layout you're using (mac-fdisk -l).
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