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8 | <sect1 id="ch-boot-yaboot"> |
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9 | <?dbhtml filename="yaboot.html"?> |
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10 | |
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11 | <title>Making the Temporary System Bootable</title> |
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12 | |
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13 | <indexterm zone="ch-boot-yaboot"> |
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14 | <primary sortas="a-Yaboot">Yaboot</primary> |
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15 | <secondary>boot, configuring</secondary> |
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16 | </indexterm> |
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17 | |
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18 | <para os="a">Some of the idiosyncracies of booting on ppc are discussed in |
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19 | <xref linkend="appendixe" role="."/>. Essentially, there are two options |
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20 | here - either copy the bootloader to an OSX root partition and boot from |
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21 | Open Firmware, or use an install, Live, or rescue CD to set up a bootstrap |
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22 | partition.</para> |
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23 | |
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24 | <sect2 role="."> |
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25 | <title>Copying the bootloader to OSX and booting from OF.</title> |
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27 | <para os="b">You must now ensure that <filename>/tools/etc/yaboot.conf</filename> |
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28 | contains the correct details for the CLFS system. Consult |
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29 | <xref linkend="ch-bootable-yaboot" role="."/> for details, but note that |
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30 | at this point you do not need the <literal>install, magicboot, enablecdboot |
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31 | </literal>or <literal>macosx</literal> parameters because these are not |
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32 | available when you boot from Open Firmware.</para> |
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33 | |
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34 | <para os="c">By this stage, you should have the temporary system on an ext2 |
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35 | filesystem on your Mac. Now, from within OSX, copy |
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36 | <filename>/tools/lib/yaboot/yaboot</filename>) and |
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37 | <filename>/tools/etc/yaboot.conf</filename>) to the OSX <filename>/</filename> |
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38 | directory.</para> |
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39 | |
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40 | <para os="d">Each time you want to boot into the temporary system, hold down |
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41 | the option-command-o-f keys to get to Open Firmware, then use the following |
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42 | command, replacing <literal>X</literal> with the number of the partition |
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43 | containing the <emphasis>OSX</emphasis> root filesystem (typically, this |
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44 | will be '3').</para> |
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45 | |
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46 | <screen os="e" role="nodump"><userinput>boot hd:X,yaboot</userinput></screen> |
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47 | |
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48 | </sect2> |
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49 | |
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50 | <sect2 role="."> |
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51 | <title>Using a CD to set up the bootstrap partition.</title> |
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52 | |
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53 | <para os="f">This is particularly appropriate if you cannot write to an |
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54 | ext2 filesystem from OSX. Boot from the CD, and (as necessary) create |
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55 | partitions and filesystems, mount the CLFS partition at |
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56 | <filename>/tools</filename> and untar the temporary system there.</para> |
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57 | |
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58 | <para os="g">Now set up <filename>/tools/etc/yaboot.conf</filename> - see |
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59 | <xref linkend="ch-bootable-yaboot" role="."/> for details of what should be |
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60 | in it, but note that the <emphasis>install</emphasis> and <emphasis>magicboot |
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61 | </emphasis>specifications should point to<filename>/tools/lib/yaboot/</filename> |
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62 | and <emphasis>not</emphasis> <filename>/usr/lib/yaboot</filename>.</para> |
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63 | |
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64 | <para os="h">To write the bootloader to the disk, with <filename>/tools/sbin |
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65 | </filename>first on your path and <filename>/proc</filename> mounted, run the |
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66 | following command:</para> |
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69 | href="../../bootable/ppc/yaboot.xml" |
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70 | xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='r'])"/> |
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72 | <screen os="j" role="nodump"><userinput>ybin -v -C /tools/etc/yaboot.conf</userinput></screen> |
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73 | |
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74 | </sect2> |
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75 | |
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76 | </sect1> |
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