What should I copy?

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Mon Sep 13 00:49:51 EST 2010


Hi,
   I had trouble getting a new Gentoo install to boot on my Mac Mini
so for kicks I tried Ubuntu which did boot. I'd like to get back to
running Gentoo and I'm wondering what information I should retain from
my Ubuntu installation.

   Do I need anything beyond yaboot.conf, the hard drive partitioning and fstab?

Thanks,
Mark

mark at MacMini:~$ cat /etc/yaboot.conf
## 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/hda2
device=/pci at f4000000/ata-6 at d/disk at 0:
partition=3
root=/dev/hda3
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="quiet splash"

image=/boot/vmlinux.old
	label=old
	read-only
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old
	append="quiet splash"
mark at MacMini:~$



mark at MacMini:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
# / was on /dev/hda3 during installation
UUID=3d688258-e950-4dd7-87cb-48fa887bb493 /               ext4
errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/hda4 during installation
UUID=a56e05b7-6e4a-4239-83a2-df7e7115a9e8 none            swap    sw
           0       0

/dev/sda1	/media/USB1/video	ext2	rw	0	0
mark at MacMini:~$




mark at MacMini:~$ sudo mac-fdisk /dev/hda
/dev/hda
Command (? for help): p
/dev/hda
        #                    type name                  length   base
    ( size )  system
/dev/hda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @ 1
    ( 31.5k)  Partition map
/dev/hda2         Apple_Bootstrap untitled                2048 @ 2048
    (  1.0M)  NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hda3         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled            39061504 @ 4096
    ( 18.6G)  Linux native
/dev/hda4         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                 3905536 @
39065600  (  1.9G)  Linux swap
/dev/hda5              Apple_Free Extra                   1984 @ 64
    (992.0k)  Free space
/dev/hda6         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 gentoo              41943040 @
42971136  ( 20.0G)  Linux native
/dev/hda7              Apple_Free Extra               71387312 @
84914176  ( 34.0G)  Free space

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=156301488
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0

Command (? for help):


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