12/29/00

Configuring a Pismo Powerbook G3/400 for Triple Boot:
MacOS 9.0.4, MacOS X beta, and Yellow Dog Linux PPC 1.2.1

1. Installed new 10GB Toshiba IDE hard drive (replaced 6GB IBM, which had
   some problems, likely caused by heat)

2. Partitioned as follows:

Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/ata2.0' (/dev/hde)
 #:                type name              length   base     ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map Apple                 63 @ 1       
 2:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh             54 @ 64      
 3:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh             74 @ 118     
 4:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh             54 @ 192     
 5:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh             74 @ 246     
 6:      Apple_FWDriver Macintosh            200 @ 320     
 7:  Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh            512 @ 520     
 8:       Apple_Patches Patch Partition      512 @ 1032    
 9:           Apple_HFS "sys"           14921728 @ 1544     (  7.1G)
10:          Apple_Boot MOSX_OF3_Booter    16384 @ 14923272 (  8.0M)
11:        Apple_Loader SecondaryLoader     1024 @ 14939656
12:           Apple_UFS Mac_OS_X         2078750 @ 14940680 (1015.0M)
13:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 A/UX Root        2097152 @ 17019430 (  1.0G)
14:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Swap              262144 @ 19116582 (128.0M)
15:           Apple_HFS "xfer"            262144 @ 19378726 (128.0M)

The 128MB HFS partition ("xfer") is for trading files between the three.

Hint: grab the Mac port of pdisk for handy partition printouts like
the one above:

 http://www.cfcl.com/~eryk/linux/pdisk/

3. Installed MacOS 9 onto 'sys', the 7.1GB partition. (Used Retrospect to
   restore my old setup and install from CD-R backups). Tweaked various
   irritating discrepancies between the old disk and restored setup (most
   related to the Sony Spressa USB CD-R I use).

4. Installed MacOS X beta onto 1GB partition.

5. Followed the instructions here:

   http://www.resexcellence.com/hack_html_00/10-13-00.shtml
   http://www.macslash.com/articles/00/10/02/1547205.shtml
   http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/Forum3/HTML/001327.html

   ...in order to get AirPort networking to work under MacOS X. I'm on a
   cable modem network, behind a hub to which the Airport base station is
   connected via Ethernet, so my Powerbook is behind /that/. I had to turn
   off encryption and open up the previously closed network before MacOS X
   recognized the Airport network, though.

6. Installed Yellow Dog Champion Server 1.2.1 from CD onto 1GB partition.

7. Went into Open Firmware (command-option-o-f at boot) and set auto-boot?
   to false, for the time being:

   setenv auto-boot? false

8. Grabbed SystemDisk from Apple:

   ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/macosxserver/utilities/SystemDisk2.3.1.smi.bin
   http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/SystemDisk-tutorial/

9. Copied 'vmlinux', 'yaboot', 'yaboot.conf', and 'bootscript' from the
   YellowDog install CD to my MacOS9 System Folder. Edited the yaboot.conf
   and bootscript files to point to the appropriate locations.

   http://devel.yellowdoglinux.com/HOWTO/
   http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/olh_ppc_macosx.html

relevant portion of bootscript:

<BOOT-SCRIPT>
" get-key-map" " keyboard" open-dev $call-method
dup 20 dump
3 + c@ 10 = if
" Booting MacOS X ..." cr " boot hd:10,\\:tbxi" eval
then
" get-key-map" " keyboard" open-dev $call-method
dup 20 dump
2 + c@ 80 = if
" Booting MacOS 9 ..." cr " boot hd:9,\\:tbxi" eval
then
" get-key-map" " keyboard" open-dev $call-method
dup 20 dump
1 + c@ 01 = if
" Booting Linux ..." cr " boot hd:9,\\yaboot" eval
then
" get-key-map" " keyboard" open-dev $call-method
dup 20 dump
5 + c@ 08 = if
" Booting MacOS ..." cr " boot hd:9,\\:tbxi" eval
else
" Booting Linux ..." cr " boot hd:9,\\yaboot" eval
then
</BOOT-SCRIPT>


10. Booted into Linux and set up airport networking:

   - created 'ifcfg-airport' in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
   - edited /etc/sysconfig/network (added GATEWAY)
   - turned eth0 ONBOOT off.

   - had to download latest pmac-stable kernel and rebuild airport
     module from sources.

   ...

   - added script to automate necessary changes in ifcfg-airport,
     resolv.conf, and /etc/sysconfig/network depending on which net
     I happen to be on.

11. Set up ssh. (I'm running both 1.* and 2.* on various machines, so I
    need both.) Build and install the 1.* tree first, then 2.*.

   ftp://ftp.ssh.com/pub/ssh/ssh-1.2.30.tar.gz
   ftp://ftp.ssh.com/pub/ssh/ssh-2.4.0.tar.gz

    2.0 doesn't work, so I'm switching to OpenSSH.

12. Set up XFree86.

    After a bit of wrestling with mouseconfig, I realize my input layer
    is out of date, so I upgrade:

    ftp://devel.linuxppc.org/users/fsirl/R5/RPMS/ppc/dev-2.7.18-3b.ppc.rpm

    I followed the instructions on cloud13.com/ppc/ for the rest, though
    all I did was upgrade from 3.3.6 to 4.0 and install True Type fonts.