Reclaiming YDL partition for Mac

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

	Hold down the key sequence cmmd(apple key)-opt-p-r simultaneously 
just after the reboot bong. The machine will instantly reboot itself for 
as long as you hold those keys down. Some people say just two more 
bongs, apart from the initial one, are enough to clear the PRAM 
(Parameter RAM), but some other very knowledgeable ones claim we should 
go for at least four reboots. The clearing of the PRAM will reset some 
factory default values of settings like the boot volume, which is what's 
affecting you now.

	Hope that helps,...


		Juan.

On Thursday, December 26, 2002, at 05:11  PM, The Badger wrote:

> Thanks!  Much appreciated.
>
> What do you mean by "zap the PRAM"?  I am an Intel Linux user for the 
> most part and must plead ignorance to some of the Mac lingo.
>
> 	John
>
>
> On Thursday, Dec 26, 2002, at 15:01 America/Chicago, David Tisdell 
> wrote:
>
>>
>>> I need to wipe out my YDL installation and reformat
>>> the partitions for
>>> Mac OS X so that I have enough space to get Oracle's
>>> 9i R2 Mac Beta on
>>> this machine.  I'd like to do this in such a way
>>> that I do not destroy
>>> my Mac OS X installation that already exists on the
>>> same drive.
>>>
>>> How can this be done?  It seems like the Disk
>>> Utility for Mac does not
>>> see the YDL partitions.  Can I do this with fdisk?
>>> Has anyone done
>>> this successfully?
>>>
>>> I also expect there will be a need to modify the
>>> boot loader?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> 	John
>>
>> If you get a copy of FWB hard disk toolkit, you can
>> safely remove the Linux partition and create an HFS+
>> partition without damaging other partitions.
>> Zap the PRAM and that will reset open firmware.
>> Dave
>>
>>
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