trouble booting OSX and now Linux

Wed Jun 18 12:51:01 2003

El mi=E9rcoles, 18 juni, 2003, a las 10:42 America/Mexico_City,=20
yellowdog-general-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com escribi=F3:

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> Message: 7
> Subject: trouble booting OSX and now Linux
> From: Damian Smith <damianfrancis@softhome.net>
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Organization:
> Date: 18 Jun 2003 03:27:59 -0400
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
> Hello Dan,
> I just installed ydl on my ibook and I could not get OSX to boot. I=20
> realized while trying to load MOL that I had told the installer the=20
> wrong partition.  So I went into the yaboot.conf file and changed the=20=

> line for OSX to the right partition.

Did you ran the ybin program to apply the changes on your=20
/etc/yaboot.conf to the bootstrap partition ?

You must do a "man ybin" so you can undestand what it does...

> But is still did not work.  So I thought maybe the issue with pdisk=20
> was the problem, so I upgraded it,and when I was going through the=20
> howto that you wrote for updating
> pdisk, and when I got to the part where partition 1 is supposed to be
> wrong in saying Apple_bootstrap my partition 1 already had the correct
> Apple_partition_map but partition 9 had the other Apple_bootstrap, and
> that is where I think bootstrapping was taking place, but I changed it
> to Apple_partition_map wrote it closed the program and tried to load=20=

> MOL
> so see if it could load OSX now but it still could not.  So I =
rebooted.
> When I did I saw an icon of a folder with a ? on it, and then OSX just
> started booting, so I have OSX booting again, but I no longer have the
> ability to boot linux.

This can be fixed by reseting the PRam, just hold down Alt+Option while=20=

presing P+R, if your bootstrap partition is before the apple HFS+  and=20=

your linux partition, this will bring back the yaboot loader...

> Could you please tell me what I did wrong and
> how to fix it so I can boot Linux or OSX from yaboot, at this point I=20=

> am
> not even seeing yaboot, just the crazy "? folder" icon and then OSX is
> booting.

First, you must reset the PRam on your box so you can be able to boot=20
into linux...
Second, fix the entries in your /etc/yaboot.conf to map the right=20
partition of your OSX
Netx run ybin -b /dev/hdaX (where X is your bootstrap partition...)

This must do the work, now restart your mac to see if you do it rigth,=20=

if it doesn't work, just reread the man pages to find where's the=20
mistake...

Hope this can help...

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