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

[Mark Srebnik]

    Hi YDL General Listers,

THANKS SO MUCH to all who were trying to help me get my OSX drive back
again!!!!

It really helps to have this kind of support!!

After following Paul Handly's post from the newbie list (see below), I'm now
able to use my other drive with OSX again.

Really appreciate the time that everyone put into assisting me work this
out.

Hope I can reciprocate sometime now that I have my system back... ;-)

Now if I can just remember why I even wanted to install YDL3....;-)

Regards,

Mark

MARK SREBNIK
ARCHITECT AIA
Los Altos, CA
www.MarkSrebnikArchitect.com



on 6/29/03 12:02 AM, Paul Handly at phandly@earthlink.net wrote:

> so do 'pdisk /dev/hdb'
> then do the 'change type' thing - I think it's 't' but you can check
> that with '?'
> the partition you need to re-type is #1 -' Apple_Bootstrap'
> the type you need to change it to is 'Apple_partition_map'
> 
> then when you've changed it, hit 'w' to overwrite the current map (save
> changes)
> then reboot to test it out.
> 
> The option key thing only lets you select between what Open Firmware
> recognizes as valid boot partitions - Mac OSX gags on startup because
> it can't read it's own partition map, due to the Anaconda bug which
> changes the map type.  The best use of that is when you've messed up
> the startup disk settings by using apple's stuff instead of yaboot -
> then you can use the option key startup to kick yourself back into
> yaboot.
> 
> --
> Remember: until you open the box and look inside, Cartman's kitty is
> both alive and dead.
> 
> Paul Handly
> phandly@earthlink.net
> http://deusex.mojokstudios.net