FC4 --> FC5 need yaboot, OF help

[Paul Nasrat]

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 00:49 +0200, Mike Hammill wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> After upgrading FC4 to FC5, I have not been able to successfully  
> reboot yet.  The problem is a messed up yaboot.conf, I think.  I  
> could use some help and or advice on that.  Specifically, can I  
> specify at yaboot's "boot:" prompt (or perhaps it's OpenFirmware's)  
> an "init=" ?  And if so, how?

It's sounds like an ofpath bug (for real this time...).  What exact
hardware do you have.

> As you can see, I'm struggling with things I don't totally understand  
> here (probably why I am not succeeding!)  First off, I'm not sure  
> exactly what initrd's really do.  Second, I'm not sure not having one  
> is really the problem; it could be that odd message about the  
> console.  Finally, even if I'm barking up the right tree, I don't  
> know how to make OpenFirmware/yaboot do the right thing.

A few notes, atm yaboot can not add initrd from the boot line (I really
need to fix this

> Help or advice appreciated.
> 
> PS  I don't have the yaboot.conf installed by the FC5 DVD in front of  
> me, but as I remember is didn't include much more than a boot=/dev/ 
> hda2 and partition=3 in it.

Can you boot off the DVD with "linux rescue" into rescue mode.  We
should be able to fix up from there.  If you can boot into rescue mode,
can you:

chroot /mnt/sysimage
grab yaboot.conf, and run ofpath --debug /dev/hda2

Also wget http://people.redhat.com/pnasrat/ofpath and try with that
version.

Paul