yaboot problems (solved!)

AliasXZ · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:49 pm Post subject: yaboot problems (solved!)

ok, for some reason yaboot is only displaying:

JoseJX · Developer Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2762

Did ybin run correctly? What is on the bootstrap partition if you mount it? It should be an HFS filesystem with 3 files, ofboot.b, yaboot and yaboot.conf. You can try replacing the yaboot.conf yourself manually and see if that helps at all, but leave the other two files alone.
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AliasXZ · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:26 pm Post subject:

yeah ybin -v -b /dev/hda2 an fine, blessed it with penguin pee etc.

ok ill give it a go...
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AliasXZ · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject:

that hasnt made any difference - wtf?!
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JoseJX · Developer Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2762

Are you sure it's booting the drive you think it's booting from? You don't have two bootstrap partitions, do you? (What does mac-fdisk -l say?) Have you tried booting manually from OF?
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AliasXZ · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 3:52 pm Post subject:

yeah to all that..

ok gentoo is booting now, but i thought when you add macos=whatever, enablecdboot etc it is supposed to add a menu to boot from cd, macos etc?

at least one of my os's works now, any ideas on the other?

cheers m8
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AliasXZ · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:20 pm Post subject:

nah its no good...

[hd:2\\macosx: unknown or corrupt filesystem[/code]

wtf?!

i have just checked the partition through the disk utility off the macos dvd my yaboot.conf is in the first post....

help would greatly be appreciated

EDIT:

it only display gentoo when i press tab... when it should also display CD and macos... im really stuck with this
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JoseJX · Developer Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2762

No it shouldn't. The CD and MacOSX options are displayed before the boot: prompt. It will ask: press l for linux, c to boot from cd, etc. Try moving the macosx and enablecdboot options above the image statement.
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AliasXZ · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject:

ok this is my yaboot.conf at present with linux booting and with what you told me to do...

JoseJX · Developer Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2762

Yes, try that.
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AliasXZ · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject:

i have.... macosx does not boot and ive just reinstalled it on hda3 because of unknown filesystem crap

im stuck

EDIT

im still getting unknown or corrupt filesystem on third partition, i know it works because macosx booted up after install..

wtf...
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AliasXZ · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:09 pm Post subject:

balls to it.... im through messing about

ill just do a full gentoo install and forget macosx

its stupid i cant dual boot, anyone else managed it??
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JoseJX · Developer Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2762

Yes, it works perfectly fine here.
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AliasXZ · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject:

could you possibly post your yaboot.conf ?
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JoseJX · Developer Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2762

I don't see how it's useful, but here you go:

AliasXZ · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject:

ok get this

i did a clean install cos i got fed up, tried again, used similar to your config and it works now

go figure...

cheers matey
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AliasXZ · Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 6:20 pm Post subject:

just one more question:

u type x for macosx fine... but u type l for linux, i press l and it goes into another menu and i have to type linux to make it boot, it works finf etho, im just wondering why this is? and idea?
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JoseJX · Developer Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2762

This is on purpose. You can just press enter (or wait) to let it boot the default kernel, type in a label to boot a defined kernel or specify a kernel and arguments manually.
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