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Ben52646

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Registered: 2010-07-20

Posts: 12

Yaboot Boot FAILURE (on PPC Mac) ????!!?!

I am able to (seemingly) successfully install ArchLinux on my PPC Mac. The problem starts after I have installed everything and reboot the system. Here is what happens:

Everything starts fine, until I get into Yaboot. This is EXACTLY what is says:

Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.14
Enter "help" to get some basic usage information
boot: Linux
please wait, loading kernel...
/ht@0,f2000000/pci@5/k2-sata-root@c/k2-sata@1/disk@0:7, /boot/vmlinux26: No such file or directory
boot:

What did I do wrong? Any ideas?

Not sure if this helps, but here is my partition scheme for ArchLinux:

sda5-->bootstrap->800.0K
sda6-->swap->3.0G
sda7-->root->7.0G

Also, not sure if this is at all related, or if it is even a problem, but here is something that I found weird, that happened during installation (but, this is based on my very limited knowledge of archlinux, so this may be totally normal for archlinux):
During the installation process of arch linux, I have to "install kernel". After that installs (again, seemingly successfully), I am prompted to check a file in nano. The file is called "kernel126-fallback.conf" and this file is located at "/mnt/etc/mkinitcpio.d/kernel126-fallback.conf" . What I thought was odd (again, this may be totally normal) is that this file is COMPLETELY blank.
Is this normal? Does this have anything to with my problem listed at the top of this post (if this has nothing to do with the problem on the top of this post, than you can completely ignore this paragraph) ?

P.S.  Don't forget, I am installing the PPC version of ArchLinux
         Also, please keep responses as simple, and as step by step as possible

Thanks for the help,
Ben

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Yaboot Boot FAILURE (on PPC Mac) ????!!?!

Edit: don't cross-post.

Last edited by karol (2010-07-29 00:30:52)

Ben52646

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Registered: 2010-07-20

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Re: Yaboot Boot FAILURE (on PPC Mac) ????!!?!

Yeah, sorry about that. I first posted in the installation section. I then found out that there was a section called "Arch64 & Other Architectures" and I though that that was a much better place for my particular question. Won't happen again.

Do you have a possible solution for my question?

**********PLEASE POST ANSWERS TO THIS THREAD AT THE THREAD LOCATED AT: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=101896

Thanks,
Ben

Last edited by Ben52646 (2010-07-29 00:41:39)

karol

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Re: Yaboot Boot FAILURE (on PPC Mac) ????!!?!

> Do you have a possible solution for my question?
Sorry but no, I never used PPC version.

Cerebral

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Re: Yaboot Boot FAILURE (on PPC Mac) ????!!?!

Cross-posting is disallowed.   Please see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=101896

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