What now?

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

If you set your partitions up in such a way that zapping the PRAM brings
you back to yaboot, the Startup Disk option shouldn't cause any further
harm. You don't need to send the logic board in for repair. All you need
is a hacked copy of the firmware flasher program, which I could create for
you if I had direct access to a B&W for several hours. But just to be
thorough, I would give it another round of reset-nvram, set-defaults,
reset-all in OF. Did that recently on a flat-panel iMac and a lot of
weird OF messages went away.

On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 17:09:43 -0500, GDB-B&W-X.3.6 wrote:

> Okay, I've heard many times on this list about the fact that you are not 
> supposed to use the startup disk option from within OS 9 or OS X once 
> you have YDL and yaboot on your system.  What I have not heard so far is 
> what happens if you do?  That is the only thing I can think of that may 
> be causing my problem.  I don't remember doing it, but I was so used to 
> doing it before installing YDL that I may have done it without even 
> thinking about it.  In any case, my B&W (rev2) 400 Mhz machine will not 
> restart in OSX no way, no how, even after completely removing YDL and 
> doing a wipe of the HD.  Presently I have a single partition on my 80 Gb 
> HD with both 10.3.6 and 9.2.2 installed on it.  From within OSX I can 
> use the startup disk option and restart in OS 9 with no problem.  Once 
> in OS 9 I can restart into OS 9 with no problem.  But no matter which OS 
> I am using I can not restart into OS X without zapping the PRAM at least 
> once.  The general consensus is that my OF is corrupted and there is no 
> way to fix it without sending the logic board in for repair.  Prices 
> I've been quoted for this procedure is more than I originally paid for 
> the computer so I found another board on the swap list which I will try.
> 
> Just a message from Doug...
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