Success anyhow -- mostly (was Re: "Guide to Installation" my foot!)

[Gavin Hemphill]

 From your description (sketchy at best) it appears you have the wrong 
partition selected for X.  Do a pdisk -l as root and have a close look 
at the partition numbers, then go in and edit /etc/yaboot.conf so that 
macosx points to the right partition (note: if you have OS 9.2.2 and OS 
X installed on the same partition you need to have OS X selected in the 
startup disk panel). Run ybin after you fix the yaboot.conf file.  Even 
easier if all you want is an occasional boot into osX is just to hold 
down the option key at boot and select the OSX disk icon.
	G++


Beartooth wrote:
> On Sun, 25 May 2003, I, Beartooth wrote:
> 
> 
>>	All right, I bought the CDs, intending to install over the top
>>of 2.3 -- and sacrifice everything already there <gnash, grate,
>>snarl>,
> 
> 	(snip!)
> 
>>	So I decide to try to go ahead -- after all, they brag about how
>>easy it is, and how much like RH9 (which I have just installed on my
>>desktop).
> 
> 	(snip!)
> 
>>... you do eventually get to "Welcome to Yellow Dog Linux" -- which
>>tells you yet again to read the fine but non-extant Guide ...
>>
>>	[To Be Continued -- stay tuned]
> 
> 
> 	Turns out they do themselves an injustice: the install process
> is clearer and easier than RH8, and it avoided or prevented one of the
> two gotchas I encountered with that: my monitor seems to be identified 
> and configured correctly. 
> 
> 	But the other gotcha seems to be here too: now it doesn't want
> me to boot into the old part. I tell it x, and it asks me again -- very
> quickly, and still in tiny print -- saying something about "stage 1."  
> Then, depending whether or not I keep hitting x, it either boots YDL
> anyway, or goes into a blank white screen that just sits there.
> 
> 	The only reason I'm keeping OSX is for the occasional nasty case 
> of an ISP I can't make YDL connect to; it may turn out that I don't need 
> it any more, and if not I certainly won't miss it. If I really don't, 
> I'll gladly re-install to let 3.0 have the whole 35GB.
> 
> 	But meanwhile it's my backup access to the Net: how do I get to
> it??
>