Lost YDL boot

[Harvey Ussery]

Thanks again, Greg, for clarification. The tip to run ybin verbose is a 
good one--at least initially, it would be very helpful seeing all that 
feedback to get a better idea what is going on.    --HU

Greg Hamilton wrote:

>
> On 21/11/2003, at 1:50 PM, Harvey Ussery wrote:
>
>> Thanks so much for reply, Greg. I will give this a try--it looks like 
>> it could work.
>>
>>    "Then, the all important step that you may perhaps have forgotten, 
>> run /usr/sbin/ybin."
>>
>> I did run ybin after reconfig'g /etc/yaboot, though it didn't seem to 
>> have much effect. I just issued it as a command:  ybin    --not 
>> as      /usr/sbin/ybin
>> Think that might have been a problem?
>
>
> No, I just included the path because /usr/sbin isn't in the normal 
> search path. I use sudo in preference to logging into a console as 
> root so I'd run:
>
> $ sudo /usr/sbin/ybin
>
> Running as root the path is probably unnecessary.
>
> Maybe try running ybin with the -v flag (verbose mode).  On my iBook, 
> dual boot YDL and OS9, ybin outputs the following:
>
> $ sudo /usr/sbin/ybin -v
> ybin: Finding OpenFirmware device path to `/dev/hda10'...
> ybin: Finding OpenFirmware device path to `/dev/hda9'...
> ybin: Installing first stage bootstrap /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot onto 
> /dev/hda10...ybin: Installing primary bootstrap /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot 
> onto /dev/hda10...
> ybin: Installing /etc/yaboot.conf onto /dev/hda10...
> ybin: Setting attributes on ofboot...
> ybin: Setting attributes on yaboot...
> ybin: Setting attributes on yaboot.conf...
> ybin: Blessing /dev/hda10 with Holy Penguin Pee...
> ybin: Updating OpenFirmware boot-device variable in nvram.
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