I broke it.

[David Bélanger]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 12:37:38PM +1000, Greg Hamilton wrote:
> I set my iBook up dual boot, YDL3.0 and OS9, which is still handy for 
> playing a couple of games and not much else. I've been using MOL to get 
> into OS9 rather than rebooting, which is pretty cool because I can be 
> playing full screen CivIII with my gazillion button optical mouse that 
> isn't normally supported by OS9 and Ctrl-Alt-F7 back to my Linux 
> desktop for ummm some really ahhh good reason....
> 
> Anyway, yesterday I hosed the OS9 partition. I think I may have had it 
> mounted under Linux and maybe tried to write something to it while OS9 
> was running in MOL. Something like that. I can still mount the OS9 
> partition from Linux but I can't access it from MOL or boot from it. I 
> just get a sad looking floppy disk icon with a question mark in the 
> middle of it. I don't know much about the old Mac stuff but I'm 
> guessing this is it's way of saying it can't find a bootable partition.
> 
> I'm a little unsure how to fix the problem. If I boot from the OS9 CD 
> and reinstall will it trash my yaboot config? And if it does how do I 
> fix it?

You can always fix it if you can boot from a Linux CD.  Just make sure, your partition setup is kept when you install OS9.

Basically, you need to boot in Linux, mount your filesystem (or specify
the root filesystem to the kernel: linux root=/dev/hdaXX   I think?),
and run ybin to restore it.

David


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