by > I have tried to configure yaboot on my PowerBook G3 Bronze with the new
> LinuxPPC 2000 Lite that I downloaded. I have it installed and working, but
> only with BootX. I followed the instructions in the manual (PDF) but it
> still does not work. I have my root partition on /dev/hda7 (type
> Apple_UNIX_SVR2) and my /boot (type Apple_HFS) partition /dev/hda9 . I have
> MacOS on hda10 and have "blessed" the /boot partition. When booting yaboot
> gives me an error the the device was not found (I am assuming the root
> partition). I have the line image = image = hd7:,vmlinux.2.2.15pre3 for the
> linuxppc label and linuxppc is set to default. Any help would be appreciated
that this is not mentioned in the manual, and I don't quite understand
all of their new tricks, but I would think that this is necessary.
In principle, you can put something like image=$shut-down into yourQuote:> Also is there any way to get yaboot to boot Mac OS on hda10 by holding down
> a key, or typing in something like bootmac . This would probably have to be
> entered into the yaboot.conf file.
yaboot.conf file. "shut-down" stands here for any OF command. In my
tests with yaboot (under lppc 1999), this one worked, but I never
succeeded in booting into MacOS in this way.
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Martin