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  • From: Chris Madak <cjm01 AT hampshire.edu>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] new user - bootstrap issues
  • Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:59:36 -0500

hello everyone-

i'm currently attempting to set up yaboot to dual-boot sourcemage ppc 0.9.3 and os x 10.3.6. after making one pass through the installer without my bootstrap partition being detected on startup, i decided to try again, with a slightly more thorough approach.

at any rate, after a relatively clean build, i shelled out to check /etc/yaboot.conf against the settings which i'd specified in the installer and found that everything was still set to defaults, so i changed settings accordingly, then tried to run ybin -b /dev/hda2 and was greeted with the following surprise:

Warning: 'nvsetenv' could not be found, nvram will not be updated
Failed to initialize HFS working directories: Read-only file system
ybin: /dev/hda2 appears to have never had a bootstrap installed, please run mkofboot

the nvsetenv business is no big deal. i'll reset it manually while testing if i have to. on the other hand, the last line had me puzzled, since mac-fdisk seemed to be telling me that everything was fine. /dev/hda2 was an Apple-Bootstrap partition, created with the "b" command, living right after the partition table.
still, i tried mkofboot -b /dev/hda2 with similar results:

Failed to initialize HFS working directories: Read-only file system
mkofboot: HFS file system creation failed!

just in case, i used mac-fdisk to delete the existing bootstrap, then tried running mkofboot on an empty hda2. same problem, same errors, so i put the bootstrap back in place, restarted, remembering to reset the nvram, and...nothing! the system is still booting past the bootstrap on hda2 and therefore the (presumably) functional sourcemage on hda10, right to os x on hda12.

all i can imagine is that perhaps the bootstrap partitions created by mac-fdisk are somehow incompatible with the ones which ybin and mkofboot would like to see... as i'm relatively new at this sort of thing, i cant really conjecture so far past that point. does anyone have any thoughts and/or related experience that might help here?

thanks in advance,

chris madak





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