Changeset 073fae8


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Timestamp:
Jun 9, 2006, 5:15:04 PM (18 years ago)
Author:
Jim Gifford <clfs@…>
Branches:
clfs-1.2, clfs-2.1, clfs-3.0.0-systemd, clfs-3.0.0-sysvinit, master, systemd, sysvinit
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r3903@server (orig r1756): ken | 2006-06-09 17:04:23 -0700
First attempt at making the ppc temporary system bootable, plus related cleanups, particularly for creating partitions.

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BOOK
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6 edited

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  • BOOK/appendices/ppc/macmiscellany.xml

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    4444        machines are unlikely to be able to read or write to macintosh partitions
    4545        (in particular, fdisk does not understand them). The format allows a large
    46         number of individual partitions, and the native Mac tools have a tendency
     46        number of individual partitions, and the native Mac tools had a tendency
    4747        to insert small "filler" partitions between the real partitions. Under
    4848        linux, using more than 15 partitions can be problematic (shortage of device
     
    5151        Mac OS partition(s) after it and (re-)install the Mac OS.  The
    5252        freespace can then be partitioned using <command>parted</command> or the
    53         older <command>mac-fdisk</command>.</para>
     53        older <command>mac-fdisk</command>.  It seems that recent versions of the
     54        Mac tools may no longer insert the filler partitions, so it may be
     55        possible to do all the partitioning before installing OSX.</para>
    5456
    5557        <warning>
    56         <para>The Macintosh resizing and partitioning tools are destructive and will
    57         delete all data when a partition is resized.</para>
     58        <para>The Macintosh resizing and partitioning tools are destructive and may
     59        delete all data when a partition is resized, even on unaltered partitions.
     60        </para>
    5861        </warning>
    5962
     
    6669        are as normal (at least one rootfs, perhaps swap, perhaps others).</para>
    6770
    68         <para>If you follow this advice, partition 1 will be the apple partition
     71        <para>According to the lfs-from-osx hint, the Mac partitioning tools
     72        can create an apple_bootstrap partition and therefore there is no need
     73        to use a Linux CD to create the desired partitions from freespace, but
     74        using a Linux CD to create the partitions is a more widely tested approach.
     75        </para>
     76
     77        <para>If you follow this approach, partition 1 will be the apple partition
    6978        map, partition 2 will be the bootstrap at the start of the disk, the
    7079        linux partitions will follow, and then the mac partition(s) - under OSX
    7180        the first mac partition will be number 3, under OS9 it would have a higher
    72         number.</para>
     81        number and there would be some apple driver partitions.</para>
    7382      </listitem>
    7483    </varlistentry>
  • BOOK/boot/ppc/hfsutils.xml

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    2222  <sect2 role="installation">
    2323    <title>Installation of Hfsutils</title>
     24
     25    <para>If you have created, or will create, the ext2 filesystem on your
     26    Mac using ext2fsx you can jump ahead to
     27    <xref linkend="ch-boot-yaboot-build" role="."/>. The next three packages
     28    are for people who cannot do that.</para>
    2429
    2530    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
  • BOOK/boot/ppc/yaboot.xml

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    1616  </indexterm>
    1717
    18   <para>This is a place holder for yaboot</para>
     18  <para os="a">Some of the idiosyncracies of booting on ppc are discussed in
     19   <xref linkend="appendixe" role="."/>. Essentially, there are two options
     20   here - either copy the bootloader to an  OSX root partition and boot from
     21   Open Firmware, or use an install, Live, or rescue CD to set up a bootstrap
     22   partition.</para>
     23
     24  <sect2 role=".">
     25    <title>Copying the bootloader to OSX and booting from OF.</title>
     26
     27    <para os="b">You must now ensure that <filename>/tools/etc/yaboot.conf</filename>
     28    contains the correct details for the CLFS system.  Consult
     29    <xref linkend="ch-bootable-yaboot" role="."/> for details, but note that
     30    at this point you do not need the <literal>install, magicboot, enablecdboot
     31    </literal>or <literal>macosx</literal> parameters because these are not
     32    available when you boot from Open Firmware.</para>
     33
     34    <para os="c">By this stage, you should have the temporary system on an ext2
     35    filesystem on your Mac.  Now, from within OSX, copy
     36    <filename>/tools/lib/yaboot/yaboot</filename>) and
     37    <filename>/tools/etc/yaboot.conf</filename>) to the OSX <filename>/</filename>
     38    directory.</para>
     39
     40   <para os="d">Each time you want to boot into the temporary system, hold down
     41   the option-command-o-f keys to get to Open Firmware, then use the following
     42   command, replacing <literal>X</literal> with the number of the partition
     43   containing the <emphasis>OSX</emphasis> root filesystem (typically, this
     44   will be '3').</para>
     45
     46<screen os="e" role="nodump"><userinput>boot hd:X,yaboot</userinput></screen>
     47
     48  </sect2>
     49
     50  <sect2 role=".">
     51    <title>Using a CD to set up the bootstrap partition.</title>
     52
     53    <para os="f">This is particularly appropriate if you cannot write to an
     54    ext2 filesystem from OSX. Boot from the CD, and (as necessary) create
     55    partitions and filesystems, mount the CLFS partition at
     56    <filename>/tools</filename>  and untar the temporary system there.</para>
     57
     58    <para os="g">Now set up <filename>/tools/etc/yaboot.conf</filename> - see
     59    <xref linkend="ch-bootable-yaboot" role="."/> for details of what should be
     60    in it, but note that the <emphasis>install</emphasis> and <emphasis>magicboot
     61    </emphasis>specifications should point to<filename>/tools/lib/yaboot/</filename>
     62    and <emphasis>not</emphasis> <filename>/usr/lib/yaboot</filename>.</para>
     63
     64    <para os="h">To write the bootloader to the disk, with <filename>/tools/sbin
     65   </filename>first on your path and <filename>/proc</filename> mounted, run the
     66   following command:</para>
     67
     68    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
     69    href="../../bootable/ppc/yaboot.xml"
     70    xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='r'])"/>
     71
     72<screen os="j" role="nodump"><userinput>ybin -v -C /tools/etc/yaboot.conf</userinput></screen>
     73
     74  </sect2>
    1975
    2076</sect1>
  • BOOK/bootable/ppc/yaboot.xml

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    3131  it.  This is all handled by <command>ybin</command> the yaboot installer.</para>
    3232
    33   <para os="d">Ybin assembles all the information it needs by reading yaboot.conf,
    34   then writes the bootstrap. When booted, the bootstrap provides an initial menu to
    35   choose between linux, boot from CD, and e.g. osx (depending on what was in yaboot.conf).
    36   If you boot to 'linux', yaboot kicks in and lets you select which kernel to use.</para>
     33  <para os="d">Ybin writes an optional 'OS selector' menu into Open Firmware,
     34  then writes yaboot and yaboot.conf to the bootstrap partition, blesses this,
     35  and updates the boot device recorded in nvram. When booted, the OF provides
     36  the initial menu to choose between linux, boot from CD, and e.g. OSX
     37  (depending on what was in yaboot.conf). If you boot to 'linux', yaboot is
     38  executed and lets you select which kernel to use.</para>
    3739
    3840  <para os="e">Images (kernels) are specified, together with any necessary path,
     
    4446  full OF path to the device, obtained by running <command>ofpath /dev/hdX</command>
    4547  .</para>
    46 
    47   <para os="f">Note that the man page mentions which filesystems yaboot can
    48   navigate to find the images - the only linux filesystem type mentioned is ext2.
    49   You can use ext3 because that can be read like ext2, but if you wish to use
    50   reiserfs or any other filesystem you may need to create a separate boot partition
    51   formatted as ext2.</para>
    5248
    5349  <para os="h">Using the above information, determine the appropriate designators
     
    136132
    137133  <warning os="r">
    138     <para>The following command will overwrite the current boot loader.
    139     Do not run the command if this is not desired.</para>
     134    <para>The following command will update the bootstrap partition and the
     135    boot variable in Open Firmware. Do not run the command if this is not
     136    desired.</para>
    140137  </warning>
    141138
  • BOOK/introduction/ppc/changelog.xml

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    3434-->
     35
     36    <listitem>
     37      <para>June 9, 2006</para>
     38      <itemizedlist>
     39        <listitem>
     40          <para>[ken] - Some tidying of the additions to 'boot', corrections
     41          to partitioning, tidying and correcting the final instructions for
     42          making it bootable, and add instructions to boot the temporary system,
     43          either from OF via OSX, or using a CD to install the bootstrap. The
     44          instructions to boot from OF use an idea from Martin Schaffner's
     45          lfs-from-osx hint.</para>
     46        </listitem>
     47      </itemizedlist>
     48    </listitem>
    3549
    3650    <listitem>
  • BOOK/partitioning/ppc-chapter.xml

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    1313
    1414  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/introduction.xml"/>
    15   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/creatingpartition.xml"/>
     15  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="ppc/creatingpartition.xml"/>
    1616  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/creatingfilesystem.xml"/>
    1717  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/mounting.xml"/>
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