restoring yaboot

[Andrew Birch]

On 11/3/03 1:01 PM, "yellowdog-general-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com"
<yellowdog-general-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com> wrote:

> Message: 8
> Subject: Re: Restoring yaboot
> From: Christopher Murtagh <christopher.murtagh@mcgill.ca>
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Organization: 
> Date: 03 Nov 2003 07:30:08 -0500
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> 
> On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 15:31, Tim Seufert wrote:
>> On Oct 30, 2003, at 7:43 AM, Andrew Birch wrote:
>> 
>>> I found this works great, but the boot from OPTION key to select OS
>>> never works for me,
>> 
>> Is it supposed to?  Not all Macs have that feature.  If your Mac lacks
>> AGP you definitely don't have it.  I seem to recall that early AGP Macs
>> lack it too.
> 
> I thought that this is a New World feature, no? My 350 MHz G4
> (Sawtooth) will let me choose which partition to boot from when holding
> down the Option key during startup.  Same goes for my old 500MHz iBook.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris

Yes, it is new world rom only.
I have a Pismo laptop that allows me to get the menu. It shows both MacOS X
and the Linux systems, but when I select Linux, the screen always goes black
but never boots. It might be a pismo-specific issue, but it hasn't worked
that way since YDL 2.1, so I just reset ybin with a boot CD instead.

Andy