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

[Felix Jodoin]

Your welcome. If you have the time to reload the bootloader for linux, 
once you are in os 9 try using the system preferences to get into mac 
os x.
-FelixJ

On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 12:59  PM, Mark Srebnik wrote:

> 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
>>
>> -- 
>> Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse.
>>
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