Can't boot out of OS 9

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Actually, you did make it clear. I was replying to the problem Greg was
having that had the same symptoms you describe. In your case, yaboot.conf
is most likely pointing OS9 to the wrong partition. You may think
it's correct, but chances are it's not. Either that or you have something
installed under OS9 that's set up to read OpenFirmware and gets confused.
(Conflict Catcher?)

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:59:08 -0400, GDB-B&W-X.3.5 wrote:

> Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> 
>>Although I haven't tried this myself because I've never had OS9 and OSX on
>>the same partition, one thing you can try is selecting OS9 in the Startup
>>Disk preference pane, then rerunning ybin from the rescue disk, but in
>>yaboot.conf having only OS9 pointing to the shared OS9/X partition, and
>>specifying the BrokenOSX option. From my understanding of the boot
>>process, that _should_ prevent such problems.
>>
>>On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:53:50 +1000, Greg Hamilton wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>GDB-B&W-X.3.5 wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>
>>>>The machine is a B&W G3 400 Mhz with 896 Mb of RAM.  I have a 20 Gb 
>>>>Maxtor IDE HD with 3 partitions.  My yaboot screen appears as normal 
>>>>after running OS X (10.3.5) or YDL (3.0.1), but if I choose to boot 
>>>>into OS 9, I am stuck there unless I zap the PRAM.  Is there a way to 
>>>>fix this and why does it happen?
>>>>
>>>>Just a message from Doug...
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>>>OS 9 and OS X can be installed on the same partition and this is a quite 
>>>common configuration. Both operating systems have a 'select boot disk' 
>>>utility in the control panel/system preferences which I presume tells 
>>>OpenFirmware which OS is active on the shared partition.
>>>
>>>I had both operating systems on the same partition and had the problem 
>>>you describe. I found that if I made OS 9 active from the OS X prefs 
>>>then I could boot OS 9 from yaboot but couldn't get OS X to boot and 
>>>vice-versa.
>>>
>>>I think the solution was to make OS X the default OS on that partition 
>>>and to use MOL to run OS 9. MOL definitely played a part. Unfortunately 
>>>I've since rebuilt the system due to a hard-drive failure and it ain't 
>>>set up like that anymore.
>>>
>>>    
>>>
> Hmmm, not sure but guess I was not clear enough.  On my 3 partitions I 
> have OS-X on one (default under yaboot), OS-9 on another and YDL on the 
> third partition.  I have MOL setup and working just fine also.  It's 
> only when I choose to boot into OS-9 from the yaboot prompt that I'm 
> stuck there unless I zap the PRAM.  Otherwise if I choose to restart or 
> shutdown and then turn the power back on, it always comes up in OS-9, no 
> more yaboot prompt. 
> 
> Just a message from Doug...
> 
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