yaboot: multibooting problems

[Super Biscuit]

I bought my systems used. $200 total for: a G3 B&W, a G4 Quicksilver, and a G4 iMac. I spent $83 on a used SunBlade 1000. Do you know where I pick up my spare parts? In the trash, in dumpsters. My "elephant in the kitchen" is that I am poor.
I did not spend all of $283 in a single day. It was over a period of a year.

The PowerPC systems that can virtualize are way out of my price range even for the used ones.

What I asked for was help in making two systems bootable.
I've dd'ed ofwboot to a bootstrap partition before OpenBSD.
I haven't done anything outside of installing NetBSD.
The Open Firmware disk paths are easy.
Which partition on hdb is easy.
How to place ofwboot.xcf, ofwboot, and ofwboot.elf, where to place, and how to get OF to boot indirectly through yaboot is not.

--- On Thu, 10/14/10, Neal Schilling <naschilling at wisc.edu> wrote:

From: Neal Schilling <naschilling at wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: yaboot: multibooting problems
To: "Super Biscuit" <super_bisquit at yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, October 14, 2010, 3:20 AM

Although this may not be the answer you are looking for, have you considered virtualizing some of the operating systems? Although PPC does not lend itself well to that task, the idea that you are running that many operating systems, to me at least, suggests that it might be time to solve the larger problem, rather than just working around the elephant in the kitchen. 

Neal Schilling 
On Oct 13, 2010, at 6:29 PM, Super Biscuit <super_bisquit at yahoo.com> wrote:

done:/home/boogers# mac-fdisk /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb
Command (? for help): p
/dev/hdb
        #                    type name                  length   base      ( size )  system

/dev/hdb1     Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @ 1         ( 31.5k)  Partition map
/dev/hdb2         Apple_Bootstrap untitled                1954 @ 64        (977.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hdb3         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled           117187501 @ 2018      ( 55.9G)  Linux
 native


/dev/hdb4         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                 1953126 @ 117189519 (953.7M)  Linux swap
/dev/hdb5         Apple_Bootstrap untitled                1954 @ 119142645 (977.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hdb6                 OpenBSD OpenBSD            126499462 @ 119144599 ( 60.3G)  Unknown


/dev/hdb7              Apple_Free Extra              379498387 @ 245644061 (181.0G)  Free space

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=625142448
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0

Command (? for help): 

## yaboot.conf generated by debian-installer


##
## run: "man yaboot.conf" for details. Do not make changes until you have!!
## see also: /usr/share/doc/yaboot/examples for example configurations.
##
## For a dual-boot menu, add one or more of:


## bsd=/dev/hdaX, macos=/dev/hdaY, macosx=/dev/hdaZ

boot=/dev/hdb2
device=/pci at f2000000/mac-io at 17/ata-4 at 1f000/disk at 1:
partition=3
root=/dev/hdb3
timeout=50
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot


enablecdboot

image=/boot/vmlinux
        label=Linux
        read-only
        initrd=/boot/initrd.img
        append="video=ofonly"

image=/boot/vmlinux.old
        label=old
        read-only


        initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old
        append="video=ofonly"
~                                     


What does not work:

>boot hd:6,ofwboot.xcf /bsd

>boot ultra1:6,ofwboot.xcf /bsd



>boot /pci at f2000000/mac-io at 17/ata-4 at 1f000/disk at 1:6, ofwboot.xcf /bsd

I've dd'ed ofwboot to hdb5.

Not sure as to how to enter the information into yaboot.conf.



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Sorry about the copy and paste from another mailing list but, there seems to be no one and very little information as to setting up my system.

I have debian, netbsd, and oipenbsd installed on the machine, each has a bootstrap partition before it.
I have room to install freebsd.
I have space left over- 60G- for one more system.

The freebsd bootloader is recognized by open firmware, netbsd and openbsd do not have such available.
I found an email from 2001 by ??@alaska.net on multibooting with netbsd.





      
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