yabootconfig fail and boot fail for gentoo and os x

[mattmatteh]

i just did a reinstall. i did yabootconfig and gave an error .... --chroot option?
so i editted yaboot.conf manually (used a previous install file) and did mkofboot and worked.
then i rebooted and got the boot menu fine. selected linux and didnt get paste the first screen, no penguin. then i did a hard reset to try os x and got nothing (circle with line through). then i tried linux again. it reboots after a few seconds.

then i did open firm ware boot menu. that took a while to load. then i got linux, osx, osx, cd
there is only one osx installed. one works and the other gives the circle with line. and linux gives the boot menu.

is this a kernel issue or yaboot issue?

here is the partition info:
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## yaboot.conf generated by yabootconfig 1.0.7
##
## run: "man yaboot.conf" for details. Do not make changes until you have!!
##
## For a dual-boot menu, add one or more of:
## bsd=/dev/hdaX, macos=/dev/hdaY, macosx=/dev/hdaZ

boot=/dev/hda12

#device=/pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/disk@0:
device=hd:
partition=14

delay=5
defaultos=macosx
timeout=30
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot

image=/boot/vmlinux
label=Linux
root=/dev/hda14
sysmap=/boot/System.map
read-only

macosx=/dev/hda11

enablecdboot
enableofboot


here is yaboot.conf
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/dev/hda
Command (? for help): /dev/hda
# type name length base ( size ) system
dump: name /dev/hda len 8
/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hda2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 56 @ 64 ( 28.0k) Driver 4.3
/dev/hda3 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 56 @ 120 ( 28.0k) Driver 4.3
/dev/hda4 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 56 @ 176 ( 28.0k) Unknown
/dev/hda5 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 56 @ 232 ( 28.0k) Unknown
/dev/hda6 Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 512 @ 288 (256.0k) Unknown
/dev/hda7 Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 800 (256.0k) Unknown
/dev/hda8 Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1312 (256.0k) Unknown
/dev/hda9 Apple_Free 262144 @ 1824 (128.0M) Free space
/dev/hda10 Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_4 17209344 @ 263968 ( 8.2G) HFS
/dev/hda11 Apple_Boot eXternal booter 17408 @ 17473312 ( 8.5M) Unknown
/dev/hda12 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 17490720 (800.0k) NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hda13 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1048576 @ 17492320 (512.0M) Linux swap
/dev/hda14 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 20529184 @ 18540896 ( 9.8G) Linux native

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=39070080
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: @ 64 for 23, type=0x1
2: @ 120 for 36, type=0xffff
3: @ 176 for 21, type=0x701
4: @ 232 for 34, type=0xf8ff

Command (? for help)
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maybe yaboot points to the wrong osx and thats why it fails? and bad linux kernel?

or bad yaboot?


matt

[porodzila]

Sounds like a yaboot error? I think there is a better program for autoconfiguration of yaboot. Wow you have lots of partitions.
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[genfoo]

you can run it outside of chroot when booted from live cd like:

yabootconfig --chroot /mnt/gentoo

should work fine like that

[mattmatteh]

i tried again. i repartitioned and reinstalled.

i found that all of those partitions were for os 9 drivers. i removed os 9 so now i have
hda1 partition map
hda2 bootstrap
hda3 swap
hda4 root
hda5 osx

i got yabootconfig to work like above. it loads osx now but still fails with linux. seems like yaboot loads fine but dosnt load the kernel, just stops.

i get the first screen before the kernel and peguin load. like the cd. bright white text then gey and penguin.

[mattmatteh]

i got it to boot. i had multitple problems. resier, ext3, bad yaboot....all combinations

i dont have the display in the kernel. i blindly logged in and made a test file and saved it and rebooted, the test file was there after the live cd boot and chroot. i think i have my problem fixed, execpt for the display but done that before. i should be able to get it now