bulliver at badcomputer
Oct 4, 2006, 1:25 PM
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New install fails to boot.
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Hi again.
Managed to muddle through the install (mostly) OK, but my kernel is not
booting. First of all, when building the kernel the guide says to use "make
vmlinux && make modules_install" so I faithfully followed the instructions.
This built me a kernel with no modules for some reason. So I built a new one
in the fashion I am accustomed to: I did "make && make modules_install". This
time my modules were made, and I copied vmlinux to /boot.
Then, when I tried using yabootconfig as in the manual it failed on me, saying
something like "failed to get required information. Did you use
yabootconfig --chroot" or somesuch. So I created a yaboot.conf manually,
using the guide as a model. I rebooted, and yaboot seemed to be working, it
gave me the menu and everything but Linux would not boot (more on this
later)..
So I booted the livecd again, and this time I
ran "yabootconfig --chroot=/mnt/gentoo" and this time it worked, but didn't
create a menu entry for OS X or to boot from the CD. So I mix and matched and
currently have this:
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boot=/dev/sda2
ofboot=hd:2
device=/ht@0,f2000000/pci@7/k2-sata-root@c/k2-sata@0/disk@0:
timeout=30
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
image=/boot/vmlinux
label=Linux
root=/dev/sda4
partition=4
read-only
macosx=ultra1:3
enablecdboot
enableofboot
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Info:
sda1 partition map
sda2 apple bootstrap
sda3 linux swap
sda4 linux '/'
sdb1 partition map
sdb2 apple bootstrap
sdb3 OS X
Again I rebooted, and all seems fine. It boots from a CD, it boots OS X just
fine, but the one constant throughout all my attempts is that when trying to
boot Linux, it prints this cryptic message and hangs:
found display :/pci@0,f0000000/ATY,SimoneParent [at] 1/ATX, Simone_B@1, opening...
Since yaboot seems to be working fine otherwise, I am thinking this may be a
kernel issue, but truly I have no idea. Have I forgotten something important?
I can post the kernel config if you want to see it.
Does anyone recognize what may have happened here?
Thanks,
-d
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