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

Ben52646 · 2010-07-29 00:25:22

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

BinkyTheClown · 2010-07-29 02:17:16

Can you post your yaboot.conf? You can use the install cd to mount the partition where it is located.

Ben52646 · 2010-07-29 02:23:43

Can you post your yaboot.conf? You can use the install cd to mount the partition where it is located.

To be honest, I have no idea how to do that...

Can you explain, step by step, how to do that?

Thanks for the help,
Ben

BinkyTheClown · 2010-07-29 02:39:43

Just boot the install cd; mount the root partition somewhere, as in "mount /dev/sda7 /mnt"

Now you can access the file at /mnt/etc/yaboot.conf

With "less /mnt/etc/yaboot.conf" you can view the file, and with "q" you can return to the console. Then post the relevant parts of the file here to see if the configuration is correct.

Ben52646 · 2010-07-29 15:26:53

Sorry it took so long for me to post my yaboot.conf , but here it is:
I copied down everything, except for lines starting with "##" :

boot=/dev/sda5
device=/ht@0,f2000000/pci@5/k2-sata-root@c/k2-sata@1/disk@0
#partition=7
delay=10
timeout=40
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
#fgcolor=black
#bgcolor=white
#password=secret
#password=/(I am leaving this part out)/
#restricted
enablecdboot
image=/boot/vmlinux26
label=Linux
root=/dev/sda7
initrd=/boot/kernel26.img
read-only
partition=7
image=/boot/vmlinux26
label=Fallback
root=/dev/sda7
initrd=/boot/kernel26-fallback.img
read-only
partition=7

Is there anything wrong with my yaboot.conf?

Thanks for the help,
Ben

BinkyTheClown · 2010-07-31 01:43:21

Your configuration looks fine. The error message is "/boot/vmlinux26: No such file or directory", so you need to make sure that file exists. Repeat the process I described above to mount the root partition, and look for /mnt/boot/vmlinux26.

You can see if it exists by running: "ls -al /mnt/boot/vmlinux26" or just "file /mnt/boot/vmlinux26".

Ben52646 · 2010-07-31 19:47:11

You can see if it exists by running: "ls -al /mnt/boot/vmlinux26"

Nope, it says that the file doesn't exist.

Is there any way for me to create that file (or is there another way to fix this problem).

Thanks for the help,
Ben

BinkyTheClown · 2010-08-01 03:19:11

That means something was wrong in the install process. Did you check the sums of the iso when you downloaded it?

Ben52646 · 2010-08-01 15:25:42

Did you check the sums of the iso when you downloaded it?

Yes I did.

That means something was wrong in the install process.

Is there a log I can check to see if there was an error during installation?

Not sure if this is usual when installing Archlinux, but:
During the installation part of setting up Archlinux from the c.d. , I did not install Archlinux from files on the c.d. , I was ask to select a mirror and then it downloaded the file(s) and installed them.

Thanks for the help,
Ben

BinkyTheClown · 2010-08-01 17:51:11

You can see pacman.log -in your case /mnt/var/log/pacman.log-. It is normal that the installer downloads some files because that's a ftp iso.

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#1 2010-07-29 00:25:22

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

#2 2010-07-29 02:17:16

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