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[Olaf Olson]

Hey Tom!

I did a double take when I saw your name. Thought for a moment it said 
Bombadil.

I posted something similar, just a few days ago. I got lots of help and 
hacked a bit on my own.

You don't say it in your posting, but I'm guessing that, when you boot, 
you go straight to Mac OS X. True? If so, open the terminal and type:

sudo pdisk /dev/rdisk0 -dump

you will probably have to enter your root password when/if prompted.

This will tell you may things. Some of which may be useful. Mine 
reported that partition 10 is the Apple_Bootstrap partition. It's 1 Mb.

I then used mascarasnake's handy information to boot to Open Firmware. 
Upon hearing the chimes at boot time, press

Apple-Option-O-F and hold them down until you get the white screen with 
minuscule text. We're talking small here, so have your glasses handy, if 
you're over 40 ;-)

next comes the almost tricky part. If you really do have YDL installed 
and ran ybin, to create and install yaboot - all of which should have 
been done as part of the install, you *should* be able to start, using 
the command:

boot hd:X,\\:yaboot

where X is the Apple_bootstrap partition. In may case, that would be

boot:10.\\:yaboot

This didn't actually work for me and I am still not sure why, although I 
have my suspicions. I tried, instead this combination:

boot:10,\\:tbxi

which booted me to the choice screen, where I was able to choose l for 
linux, c for cdrom, and X for Mac OS X. That got me into YDL, where I 
edited my /etc/yaboot.conf file to properly identify the Applebootstrap 
partition and finally ran ybin.

Give these a shot and see where you come up. Also, since you have 2 
HDDs, you'll have to be sure you have the correct drive, before you 
continue. Your configuration seems a little funny to me, as you describe 
on drive for OSX and the other for dual boot, YDL and OSX. Sounds like 
you have two possible boot drives for OSX, too. Bet you're default 
startup drive is the one with OSX only. It won't find yaboot, 'cause 
it's on the other drive. Ultimately, I think you'll have to set your 
startup drive to the dual boot drive first, then boot to OF and boot 
using the boot hd... command. yaboot will then configure the correct 
bootstrap and you'll be good to go.

Out of curiosity, why did you install YDL 2.3, and not YDL 3.0.1? The 
more current version has a better kernel and much newer, although still 
somewhat outdated, applications.

Have fun!

Olaf

"Think education is expensive? Try ignorance" - I'm too ignorant to know 
the source I am quoting.



mascarasnake wrote:

> Hey Tom. In Terminal.app, as root, run:
>     #   pdisk
>     Top level command (? for help): L
> and post the results. It's possible your bootstrap partition is in the 
> wrong place.
>
> Also check out:
>     <http://www.sharplabs.com:8668/space/Installing+YDL/BootX%2C+Yaboot+and+the+OF> 
>
>
> g'luck
>
> Tom Bombaci Jr wrote:
>
>> Hi, Chris,
>> re: this URL:   
>> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2002- 
>> April/001060.html; was the chap's problem resolved?  I have the same  
>> problem, and am unable to use the option key as you've described.
>> When I first installed YDL, I thought I had partitioned the HDD with  
>> the empty space before the new installation of OS X, but the Mac 
>> stuff  shows up first on the partition info screen of the YDL 
>> installation.
>> Sure would like to get YDL to run, but no luck so far.
>> Running a Power Mac G4 PCI (Yikes!) with 10.3.4, with two HDDs:  one  
>> for just OS X and data files, and the other to dual-boot between OS 
>> X  and YDL 2.3.
>> Tom Bombaci Jr
>> Grants NM
>>
>> http://bombaci.rootsweb.com
>> =========================
>> http://www.bazilians.org/comma.html
>>
>> Made on a Mac!
>
>