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

[Mark Srebnik]

Thanks for your reply Thierry. See comments below...

-------Original Message-------
From: Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@decoulon.ch>
Sent: 06/28/03 02:22 AM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Re: [HELP] YDL Installed OK - But Can't Boot Back to OSX!

> 
> 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.

No, this doesn't work...this is might be about corruption and maybe the YDL issue about partition map with using 2 drives and OSX on slave drive.

>>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!

Linux and OS9 boot OK.

> [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

The "Mac OS X" partition on hda is just a name for that partition. There's 
no Mac OSX on it.

Thanks,

Mark