livecd / # mkofboot -v mkofboot: Finding OpenFirmware device path to `/dev/hda1'... ofpath: Unable to determine sysfs mountpoint mkofboot: Unable to find OpenFirmware path for boot=/dev/hda1 mkofboot: Please add ofboot= where is the OpenFirmware path to /d /hda1 to /etc/yaboot.conf and my yaboot.conf : ## Change `unconfigured' to your bootstrap partition eg: /dev/hda2 boot=/dev/hda1 ## device is the OpenFirmware device path to the disk containing ## kernel images. if your disk is /dev/hda you can find the ## OpenFirmware path by running the command: ofpath /dev/hda DO NOT ## specify a partition number for this! On IBM hardware you can ## generally comment this out. device=hda ## partition is the partition number where the kernel images are ## located. The kernel images should be on your root filesystem, so ## this is usually the same partition number as your root filesystem. ## so if root = /dev/hda3 (the 3rd partition) then you should have ## partition=3 This *MUST* be set correct or yaboot won't boot! This ## option can be either set globally as shown here, or per image in ## the image= sections partition=1 ## delay is the amount of time in seconds the dual boot menu (if one ## is configured, by the presense of macos, macosx, etc options here) ## will wait before choosing the default OS (GNU/Linux or the value of ## defaultos=). If you omit this then the value of timeout= ## (converted to seconds) will be used. delay=10 ## timeout is the amount of time in tenths of a second that yaboot ## will wait before booting the default kernel image (the first image= ## section in this config file or the value of default=). timeout=40 install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot image=/boot/kernel-2.6.19-r5 label=Linux-2.6.19-r5 root=/dev/hda1 sysmap=/boot/System.map-2.6.19-r5 read-only hda1 is my /root partition and hda3 my /home