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Howdy folks, |
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I'm having problems bootstrapping my install on a clamshell g3 ibook. |
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The cdrom drive is very old now and will no read CD-R media, although |
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commercial media like OSX cds and OpenBSD cd set work fine. I have an |
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external firewire CDRW drive, but it is not possible to boot to it from |
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OpenFirmware. |
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So in the past, if an operating system installer would let me, I could |
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put the yaboot, yaboot.conf, kernel, and ramdisk image all on the first |
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HFS partition on the hard drive, and then boot things from OpenFirmware |
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prompt. |
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I am trying to do this with Gentoo, but I am having a problem. The |
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kernel and ramdisk load, but even if use the "dofirewire" kernel |
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argument, the firewire drive never spins up, and I end up at the "enter |
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root device or "shell"" prompt. |
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I haven't found any kernel modules in the ramdisk filesystem there, I |
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poked around in the busybox. |
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I have the squashfs image on the HFS partition, and on a usb stick. I |
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can't seem to mount the usb stick, the HFS partition, or get to the |
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firewire cdrom. |
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I discovered the "bootfrom=" kernel argument, but I have no idea what to |
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feed it. Can I get to anything using that that I can't get to from the |
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busybox? |
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Any ideers? |
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thanks |
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