[From nobody Wed Aug 17 17:25:51 2011
From: "Holt Havel" <hhavel@bcblackcats.net>
To: "'Paul Nasrat'" <pnasrat@redhat.com>
Subject: RE: FC4 --> FC5 need yaboot, OF help
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 10:00:21 -0500
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Why don't you try to reboot then hold down option key, and select boot
device with linux on it.



If you are able to get in to FC5 open root terminal and type " ybin -v"
That will update the yaboot info.  

Holt

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-ppc-bounces@lists.infradead.org
[mailto:fedora-ppc-bounces@lists.infradead.org] On Behalf Of Paul Nasrat
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:54 AM
To: Mike Hammill
Cc: Fedora PPC List
Subject: Re: FC4 --> FC5 need yaboot, OF help

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 00:49 +0200, Mike Hammill wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> After upgrading FC4 to FC5, I have not been able to successfully  
> reboot yet.  The problem is a messed up yaboot.conf, I think.  I  
> could use some help and or advice on that.  Specifically, can I  
> specify at yaboot's "boot:" prompt (or perhaps it's OpenFirmware's)  
> an "init=" ?  And if so, how?

It's sounds like an ofpath bug (for real this time...).  What exact
hardware do you have.

> As you can see, I'm struggling with things I don't totally understand  
> here (probably why I am not succeeding!)  First off, I'm not sure  
> exactly what initrd's really do.  Second, I'm not sure not having one  
> is really the problem; it could be that odd message about the  
> console.  Finally, even if I'm barking up the right tree, I don't  
> know how to make OpenFirmware/yaboot do the right thing.

A few notes, atm yaboot can not add initrd from the boot line (I really
need to fix this

> Help or advice appreciated.
> 
> PS  I don't have the yaboot.conf installed by the FC5 DVD in front of  
> me, but as I remember is didn't include much more than a boot=/dev/ 
> hda2 and partition=3 in it.

Can you boot off the DVD with "linux rescue" into rescue mode.  We
should be able to fix up from there.  If you can boot into rescue mode,
can you:

chroot /mnt/sysimage
grab yaboot.conf, and run ofpath --debug /dev/hda2

Also wget http://people.redhat.com/pnasrat/ofpath and try with that
version.

Paul


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