Linux on PowerPC FAQ-O-Matic : Trash :
Booting Woes Galore!
Yaboot seems quite complex, and the links off of LinuxPPC.org seem to suggest that I need to boot into Linux to edit yaboot.compf. If I could boot into Linux, I wouldn’t need the yaboot solution.
Now I’m thinking my only hope is editing my Open Firmware. Please, anyone! Help!
Where shall I begin. For starters, I am using the bootable CD I bought from Linux PPC. Now, I’ve read the Install PDF on the CD so many times I’ve practically memorized it. And no matter what configurations I try, it just does not work.
First, I tried booting into Linux from the CD. I got the penguin icon, then it ran through a series of commands. What’s most important is, it interrupted out through my partitions until it hit hda10 – my HFS partition – then tried to load the Linux installer to no avail. The next two lines said I needed to repartition the drive and run the install.pl. It them proceeded a never ending interrupting out of my partitions.
So I nixed that idea and decided to repartition my drive with the Mac Drive Setup. I set up boot, swap and HFS and tried the BootX. To no avail. Now, when I load into Linux, it just blacks out my screen, shuts down the box and it tries recovering about 2 minutes later. Only the drive spins but nothing happens.
I even tried manually dragging all the elements of the BootX installer directly onto the drive from the CD, per the instructions on the PPC install PDF. Again, to no avail.
mark@samiyam.com
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