Restoring yaboot

[Tim Shubitz]

Michael,
    The YellowDog HOW-TO is certainly the way to go. As I re-read your 
message your situation certainly falls under the "If the HFS boot 
partition is after Mac OS..." section which, as I'm sure you've read, 
has a few options for bringing the yaboot menu back. Good luck and have 
a wonderful night!


- tim



On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 04:53  PM, Michael H. Martel wrote:

> --On Wednesday, October 29, 2003 12:53 PM -0600 Tim Shubitz 
> <tshubitz@mac.com> wrote:
>
>>     Did you even try what I suggested? That setting is stored in NVRAM
>> which can be reset by zapping the PRAM. Every time that I've 
>> installed a
>
> I have to admit no.  By the time my message got out to the mailing 
> list (DNS Issues upstream kept my message from reaching the list until 
> mid morning) I had already found this web page with information (A 
> google cached copy).
>
> <http://yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_3.0/reset_boot.shtml>
>
> I firmly believe that zapping the PRAM will help/fix this problem in a 
> standard setup, but reading this website made me think that it 
> wouldn't with my setup.
>
> I'll try it in the morning, but if you would tell me what you would 
> expect to happen in this scenario :
> 	
> 	MacOS 9 		- /dev/hda6
> 	MacOS X 		- /dev/hd7
> 	YDL Bootstrap 	- /dev/hda8
> 	SWAP 		- /dev/hda9
> 	SWAP 		- /dev/hda10
> 	YDL 3.0 		- /dev/hda11
>
> I would expect zapping the PRAM to make the Computer search for the 
> first available boot device. In this case OS9, not the YDL Bootstrap.
>
> If I had this :
>
> 	Bootstrap
> 	MacOS9
> 	MacOSX
> 	YDL 3.0
>
> Then yes, I can see how zapping the PRAM would definitely fix it.
>
> Am I just thick in the head or am I missing something ? BTW, if it 
> matters, this is on a Blue and White G3 (Upgraded with a Sonnett G4).
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Michael
>
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