yaboot is messed up

[Hugh Caley]

As I mentioned, my default kernel is bad.  This won't get around that, 
will it?  I can't figure out the syntax of the command I should use at 
the yaboot prompt (i.e. after booting, pressing "l" for linux, and then 
typing "help" at the command line it).

Hugh


> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 18:14:55 +1000
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> From: "mr.snow" <mr.snow@laudanum.net>
> Subject: Re: yaboot is messed up
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
> did you try booting open firmaware, starting linux from there, once 
> linux is loaded, su to root, then run ybin ?
>
> <snip src='current thread'>
>
>>>  >>  >> 1 boot to open firmware ( reboot opt cmd o + f )
>>>  >>  >> 2 type 'boot hd:9,yaboot' ( if the boot partition is hda9 )
>>
>
>                 3a login & su to root
>
>>>  >>  >> 3 /usr/sbin/ybin ( run ybin )
>>
>
> </snap>
>
>>> I built a non-workable kernel, and now I need to boot from the old 
>>> one. Unfortunately, I didn't notice that my yaboot.conf file has the 
>>> identical labels for both kernels; 
>>
>
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