Joss, Thanks for your help. I read on one of the yaboot FAQs that kernel 2.2.15 or greater is required for Yaboot to work. Unfortunately, I have 2.2.14 (SuSE 6.4). I would like to use the latest kernel but I believe 2.4.0 is not ready for the PPC. What is the most recent kernel available for the PPC? Is there any good FAQs on how to upgrade the kernel on the PPC? Andrew
Can you explain how you got yaboot working? I have a B+W G3 with 2 hard drives. On my master drive I have OS9, OS X and Linux, I use my slave for back-up purposes. I have a linux bootstrap partition, in HFS format on the Master drive. I can't get yaboot to boot into Linux. I have to boot up from the CD,
Andrew Montague
Sure, I'll try to help. I used the very detailed instructions found at http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ybin/doc/yaboot-faq.html. The link to 'how to partion my hard drive?' and getting a decent Apple_bootstrap partition set up was essential reading for me.
First, a couple of questions, can you send me your yaboot.conf and is your bootstrap partition an invisible 800k partition? Not a 'Linux Boot' partition that suse suggests setting up. suse botch yaboot into working. using ybin/yaboot and a bootstrap takes some patience but seems to me a much cleaner way of booting up. Please make sure you have the latest ybin package.
cheers