Kubuntu Breezy PPC yaboot newbie help needed.

[Brian Durant]

Hi,

I understand that yaboot has a bug in it, so the yaboot.conf file  
doesn't set the path correctly. I have also been trying to bone up on  
Open Firmware. and understand that using the command "devalias" in  
Open Firmware, gives you a list of all of the aliases, so that  
creating a correct path name to get yaboot to boot into OS X  
correctly, is a little easier. I just can't figure out how to save  
the output of the command "devalias" to a file on my OS X HD, so that  
I can compare the paths with a copy of my yaboot.conf file. I also  
don't understand where the alias should be placed. I have studied a  
number of the Apple Kowledge Base files on Open Firmware, but don't  
get much out of them. This stuff is written for developers and isn't  
easy for a newbie to New World Macs and Linux to figure out. Can  
anyone on the list help?

I have Kubuntu Breezy PPC installed on SATA drive #1 and OS X  
installed on SATA drive #2. both are internal HD's. Here is my yaboot  
conf file:

## yaboot.conf generated by the Ubuntu 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/sda2
device=/ht at 0,f2000000/pci at 3/k2-sata-root at c/k2-sata at 0/disk at 0:
partition=3
root=/dev/sda3
timeout=100
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
enablecdboot
macosx=/dev/sdb3

image=/boot/vmlinux
	label=Linux
	read-only
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img
	append="quiet splash"

image=/boot/vmlinux.old
	label=old
	read-only
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old
	append="quiet splash"


Cheers,

Brian