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

[Mark Srebnik]

Hi Felix,

Thanks for your help. 

I can use option key now but only to boot into OS9.

see my other email I just sent with more info.

Thanks,

Mark
-------Original Message-------
From: Felix Jodoin <felixj@shaw.ca>
Sent: 06/28/03 06:46 AM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Re: [HELP] YDL Installed OK - But Can't Boot Back to OSX!

> 
> 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
>
> -- 
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