Problems booting openSUSE
Hi i just want to install openSUSE Beta3 on a PPC iBook on an external USB-HARDDRIVE. So theres my Problem: After installing the kernel an a minimal amount of apps of the openSUSE CD1, the YAST-Setup Tool wants me to restart my machine. So after doing it and pressing the ALT-Key after the beep, the external USB-Drive isnt bootable yet, so that I cant booting my newly installed openSUSE Beta3. Looking for help on google I found out, that I should do something with the yaboot-bootmanager! Also the description of booting into openSUSE on the openSUSE website doesnt work. Would somebody help me, and give just a little step-by-step description how I get this drive bootable, to start to my newly installed openSUSE? Thx allot! GALDO
On 9/1/05 6:53 AM, "Andreas del Galdo" <andreas.delgaldo@gmx.net> wrote:
Hi
i just want to install openSUSE Beta3 on a PPC iBook on an external USB-HARDDRIVE. So theres my Problem:
After installing the kernel an a minimal amount of apps of the openSUSE CD1, the YAST-Setup Tool wants me to restart my machine. So after doing it and pressing the ALT-Key after the beep, the external USB-Drive isnt bootable yet, so that I cant booting my newly installed openSUSE Beta3. Looking for help on google I found out, that I should do something with the yaboot-bootmanager! Also the description of booting into openSUSE on the openSUSE website doesnt work.
Would somebody help me, and give just a little step-by-step description how I get this drive bootable, to start to my newly installed openSUSE?
Thx allot!
GALDO
I think it is a hardware issue...the iBook is not bootable via USB. Mac's are bootable via firewire only. Some iBooks have firewire, some do not. Doesn't matter what OS you are using. -- Thanks, George I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. Mark Twain
On Thu, Sep 01, Andreas del Galdo wrote:
Would somebody help me, and give just a little step-by-step description how I get this drive bootable, to start to my newly installed openSUSE?
The firmware can not load files from an USB device. All you can do is: copy yaboot and yaboot.conf to a bootable partition and load them manually from the OpenFirmware command line prompt, like 'boot hd:9,yaboot'. Boot into the installed Linux system on your USB drive. If your macos partition is hda9, do this (assuming its HFS+ without journaling): add usb-storage to KERNEL_MODULES in /etc/sysconfig/kernel and run mkinitrd. create a /root/yaboot.conf like this: timeout=123 default=linux image=hd:9,vmlinux initrd=hd:9,initrd append="root=/dev/sda1 quiet sysrq=1" label=linux mount -t hfsplus /dev/hda9 /mnt cp -vL /boot/initrd /boot/vmlinux /lib/lilo/pmac/yaboot /root/yaboot.conf /mnt umount /mnt If you have a small HFS partition on your internal disk, lilo will do all the above for you. An example /etc/lilo.conf could look like this boot=/dev/hda10 timeout=123 default=macos activate image=/boot/vmlinux initrd=/boot/initrd label=linux append="root=/dev/sda1 quiet sysrq=1" copy other=/dev/hda9 label=macos The 'copy' option will copy the vmlinux and initrd to the HFS partition where the firmware can load it. Let me know if that works for you.
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