problems with FC3 install on mac mini [solved]

[Bret Hughes]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 13:23, Bret Hughes wrote:
> First let me say that I am really pumped about a fedora based instal on
> the ppc arch and am looking forward to helping further the cause.
> 
<snip

> 
> any ideas what I should pass to yabootconfig to get this to work or have
> I hosed the damn thing again ?
> 

ok.  I decided after a bunch of stfw that I definitely needed a
bootstrap partition and realized that the apple partitioning had left
ove 100MB towards the beginning of the drive that I did not see before.

I used parted to create an almost 1mb partition and set the bootable
flag so now I have the following:

[bhughes at bretsony mydata]$ cat /tmp/parted.out 
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38154.375 megabytes
Disk label type: mac
Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Name                  Flags
1          0.000      0.031              Apple                 
5          0.032      1.000              bootstrap             boot
3        128.031  19077.218              Apple_HFS_Untitled_2  
2      19077.219  34077.218  ext3        untitled              
4      34077.219  34589.218  linux-swap  swap                  swap
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if
necessary.             

yaboot.conf generated by yabootconfig looks like this : (execpt for the 
enable cd line

[bhughes at bretsony mydata]$ cat /tmp/yaboot.conf 
boot=/dev/hda5
device=/pci at f4000000/ata-6 at d/disk at 0:
init-message=Welcome to Fedora Core\!
Hit <TAB> for boot options.


partition=2
timeout=30
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
default=Linux
defaultos=linux
enablecdboot


image=//boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.766_FC3.dwmw2
	label=Linux
	root=/dev/hda2
	read-only
	initrd=//boot/initrd-2.6.10-1.766_FC3.dwmw2.img

Still the same symptoms.  yaboot comes up and I get the boot prompt. 
tab shows the Linux option but it still won't boot.  I get a file not
found error.

Got in via linux rescue using the install disk and cleaned up the // on
the image=filename and initrd=filename and I'll be darned if it did not
boot! 

Got X running using the ati driver and it seems pretty quick at 1024 X
768 24bbp.

Bret