[HELP] YDL Installed OK - But Can't Boot Back to OSX!
Felix Jodoin
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sat Jun 28 08:46:01 2003
Um, if the option key doesn't work it may also mean the computer is a
bit older, I have a 333mhz imac (Rev. B) and you cannot use the option
key to change the boot drive, no matter how hard I try.
-AliasN
On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 05:22 AM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse.
>
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