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 Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 1:27 am Post subject: 1st yaboot, can't find /dev/hda4 [RESOLVED] |
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Hello all,
Ok, just finished the install and trying first reboot...and it failed.
I"m going back through...and can't seem to find my problem/errors. Hoping a 2nd set of eyes can help me.
Ok, to start:
When I boot up it hangs with:
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* Checking root filesystem...
/sbin/fsck.sfx: /dev/hda4 does not exist
*Filesystem couldn't be fixed :(
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue)
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I've been trying to go through to find the problems..and can't see them. I've been searching the forums..and see some posts similar, but just not quite looking what I have.
Here's my info:
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mac-fdisk -l give the following:
/dev/hda
# type name length base (size) system
/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 (31.5K) Partition map
/dev/hda2 Apple_Free 262144 @ 64 (128.0M) Free Space
/dev/hda3 Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_4 58342896 @ 262208 (27.8G) HFS
/dev/hda4 Apple_Free 16 @ 58605104 (8.0k) Free Space
Block size=512, Number of Blocks=58605120
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
/dev/hdb
# type name length base (size) system
/dev/hdb1 Apple_partition_map Apple 2 @ 1 (1.0k) Partition map
/dev/hdb2 Apple_HFS catalyst 20101212 260748 @ 16 (127.3M) HFS
lock size=512, Number of Blocks=260764
DeviceType=0x1, DeviceId=0x1
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My /etc/yaboot.conf:
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boot=/dev/hda2
device=/pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/disk@0:
partition=4
root=/dev/hda4
timeout=30
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
image=/boot/kernel-2.6-32-gentoo-r20
label=Linux
read-only
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My fstab:
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#/dev/BOOT /boot xfs noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda4 / xfs noatime 0 1
/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
#some comments
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
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One strange thing with yabootconfig...I had to tell it like 3-4 times the path to my kernel...I triple checked and was right /boot/kernel-2.6-32-gentoo-r20 typed in...it finally accepted it.
All looks well...but just doesn't seem to want to boot.
I can boot back to CD and mount /dev/hda4 onto /mnt/gentoo and chroot back in...I"m just not sure what to do from here.
Anything stand out as wrong?
One last thing...when setting up the disks...I used to use reiserfs...when you formatted the partition with that...it spit out a lot of message...etc while it formatted the disk.
The xfs formatting...didn't seem to do much...at least, it wasn't verbose..that's for sure.
Any suggestions?
thank you,
cayenne
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 2:32 am Post subject: Re: 1st yaboot, can't find /dev/hda4 |
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| cayenne wrote: |
#/dev/BOOT /boot xfs noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda4 / xfs noatime 0 1
/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
Any suggestions?
thank you,
cayenne |
Yes reformat /boot to use ext2
xfs is too unreliable for booting.
And / or try sda4 in place of hda4
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| Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 9:26 pm Post subject: Re: 1st yaboot, can't find /dev/hda4 |
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| turtles wrote: | | cayenne wrote: |
#/dev/BOOT /boot xfs noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda4 / xfs noatime 0 1
/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
Any suggestions?
thank you,
cayenne |
Yes reformat /boot to use ext2
xfs is too unreliable for booting.
And / or try sda4 in place of hda4 |
Thanks for the reply...but if you notice..the /dev/BOOT is commented out on the fstab...on the ppc, there isn't a separate /boot partition like with x86 boxes...right? I read recommendations that since Apple bootstrap, etc partitions are actually used for boot up...that you don't want to generally have a different boot partition
My /boot is on the same partition as my / .....so, no way I can format it differently than the rest of that partition.
Or..is this saying that XFS isn't a viable option as a filesystem on an old iBook G3 PPC? Would I be stuck starting over and only able to use ext2?
I checked ..my drives all seem to be /dev/hda....see the output from my mac-fdisk -l
Thanks for the reply...looking for some validation that XFS can't be used, and I have to start all over?
cayenne 
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:31 am Post subject: Re: 1st yaboot, can't find /dev/hda4 |
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WOW....thanks!!
I wish I had known this document existed out there....didn't find it with any of my searches..
Ok...can boot up with live cd...chroot in...and do this.
I'll give it a try and report back
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| Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 1:34 am Post subject: hmm...didn't work |
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Well, I booted up with the live cd.
I did a mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo
I did cd to /mnt/gentoo/usr/src/linux
and did a cat vmlinux /mnt/gentoo/usr/boot/kernel-2.6.32-gentoo-r20 ( this was the name of the file I'd originally had cp'ed over and is what yaboot.conf is pointing to for the image:
image=/boot/kernel-2.6.32-gentoo-r20
label=linux
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Anyway..when rebooted...same error:
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/sbin/fsck.xfs: /dev/hda4 does not exist
*FIlesystem couldn't be fixed :(
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Hmm...not the exact error that was in the faq that was pointed out to me in this thread which said: "read error"
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance...
cayenne 
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As a first step, make sure that the controller for the HD is built into your kernel. Likewise, if the machine has more than one HD controller, make sure that the drive enumeration results in the same drive names as the boot CD.
As for the "boot" partition, I do put a small ext3 partition on all of my PPC machines for the kernel so that I can try newer, unsupported filesystems for my root partition. It's perfectly fine to have a separate boot partition, just not required. XFS should work, but if you want to rule that out, you could carve a boot partition out of your swap temporarily.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:43 pm Post subject: Update |
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I dunno if I can mark this SOLVED..as that I basically gave up on the XFS thing.
I started over...did everything with the ext3 file system..and simply named my kernel vmlinux in the /boot directory....yabootconfig found it with no problems.
I'll mark this maybe resolved or something...
Thank you for all the help!
Now..trying to get X working on it with KDE....weeding through that install now.
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