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Please put your message after the previous poster in order to maintain |
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threadedness, and edit the message for brevity, and set your mailer to |
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use a "> " string as comment_string. |
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* Pyott, Albert R [Pyott@×××××.gov] [2002-10-19 08:06 -0400]: |
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> > > Could someone share a good, simple yaboot.conf script? I'm not |
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> > > installing any other OS. Just Linux. Nothing fancy. |
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> > |
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> > Sure. Here ya go. |
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> > |
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[snip] |
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> > boot=/dev/hda9 |
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> > device=hd: |
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> > partition=13 |
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> > root=/dev/hda13 |
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> > timeout=30 |
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> > macos=hd:11 |
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> > install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot |
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> > magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot |
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> > |
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> > image=/vmlinux |
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> > label=Linux |
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> > read-only |
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> |
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> I tried several scripts just like this one. So my yaboot.conf seems to |
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> be ok. After the second boot prompt when I choose the linux kernel, I |
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> get tossed into open firmware. OF has the correct boot partition set. |
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> My root dir. has /boot, which has vmlinux in it. I don't have the |
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> symlink to /vmlinux though. |
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> |
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> Whatever ybin put on the boot partition is all I have there. No kernel |
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> images or anything. |
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I think we need to see your /etc/yaboot.conf and /etc/fstab. My |
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suspicion is that you have a separate partition for boot but are not |
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mounting it before you copy to /boot and so vmlinux ends up in /boot |
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(the mount point on your root partition and not /dev/hdaX, the |
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partition assigned as partition=X in your yaboot.conf). Also boot= is |
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the bootstrap partition and not /boot and should never be mounted. |
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Perhaps this will clear things up (from my set-up): |
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# my /boot partition is /dev/hda14 this contains my various kernels |
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zsh% cat /etc/fstab| egrep boot | align |
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/dev/hda14 /boot ext3 noatime 0 0 |
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# my bootstrap is /dev/hda2 .. this is the first partition after the |
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# partition_map |
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zsh% egrep "^boot" /etc/yaboot.conf |
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boot=/dev/hda2 |
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# my partition (the partition containing kernels) in yaboot.conf is |
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# /dev/hda14 as you see from the above fstab |
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zsh% egrep "^partition" /etc/yaboot.conf |
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partition=14 |
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HTH |
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