I installed linuxppc 2000 on a beige g3 tower following the recipe
precisely, down to blessing the fake system folder on the hfs 'boot
linuxppc' partition and selecting it as the start up disk. but, when
restarting, the machine doesn't see it and goes back to booting from the cd.
I've run disk repair from both norton and mac os disk repair, and some
things such as catalog trees needed to be reapaired, and so I went ahead and
fixed them. the partition is now perfect, mounts on macos fine, everything
is visible (but for some reason I can't open yaboot.conf with simple text).
I searched through the mailing list archives, but couldn't find anybody with
a similar problem in the many yaboot related posts.
Would anybody know what's going on here?
any help would be greatly appreciated.
best,
Oliver
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it's not clear to me how I should replace yaboot with miboot. a mini-howto
would be great...
> From: Moon...@141.com (Michael A. Peters)
> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 03:11:40 -0700
> To: oliver <oli...@pretaluz.com>, linuxp...@lists.linuxppc.org
> Subject: Re: can't boot directly on old world g3 - yaboot invisible?
>
> yaBoot does not work with old world macs, including the Platinum (aka beige)
> G3
>
> Use miBoot or BootX instead.
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Michael and Chris, thanks a lot.
I'm glad to see that that thing is still useful to somebody... on a related
note... would anybody be interested in me updating that HOWTO and possibly
submitting it to linuxppc.org ? (what is the submission process? I should
probably go look at the page for an email address, shouldn't I :-)
I am also (in my copious free time :) working on a more generic "PowerMac
boot FAQ". There seems to be a lot of confusion about which boot methods
work with which models. It would be nice to be able to say "go here, and
this will explain it". No due date, basically just "it's ready when it's
ready"... all information about this subject is welcome...
I have a good start on miBoot, BootX, and quik/openfirmware booting on old
world machines... still working on gathering information about yaboot/ybin,
though there seems to be a lot more info on the net about that than about
old world booting...