[HELP] YDL Installed OK - But Can't Boot Back to OSX!

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Friday 27 June 2003 22:06, Mark Srebnik wrote:

> Can you or others advise...need to get back into OS X on my desktop
> Mac...thank goodness I have a iBook as backup....;-)

Hmmh, I'm no expert here. But what happend if you start the computer with the 
option key pressed? Can you then load OS X? If not I'd say that something is 
corrupted here.

You moved your first disk to slave. So it's now /dev/hdb. I don't know bsd so 
well but this would prevent Linux from booting (as /etc/fstab still would 
point to /dev/hda). This may not be a problem for OS 9, but OS X is *nix!


> [root@localhost root]# /sbin/pdisk -l
>
> Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda'
>  #:                type name               length   base      ( size )
>  1: Apple_partition_map Apple                  63 @ 1
>  2:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh              56 @ 64
>  3:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh              56 @ 120
>  4:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh              56 @ 176
>  5:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh              56 @ 232
>  6:      Apple_FWDriver Macintosh             512 @ 288
>  7:  Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh             512 @ 800
>  8:       Apple_Patches Patch Partition       512 @ 1312
>  9:     Apple_Bootstrap untitled             2048 @ 1824      (  1.0M)
> 10:           Apple_HFS "Mac OS X"      129465944 @ 104975696 ( 61.7G)
> 11:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap              1572864 @ 3872      (768.0M)
> 12:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled        103398960 @ 1576736   ( 49.3G)
> 13:          Apple_Free Extra                   8 @ 234441640
>

This seems ok. YOu seem to have an OS X partition on hda as well. Does that 
one work?

Thierry

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