Unable to see installed YDL on my Mac G4 system.

[Frederick C.Lee]

I could reboot in all drives initially.
But after running Panther (from an ext HD) for a few hours and then 
reboot, pressing the ALT key only revealed other OS X boot drives.  The 
Linux is 'off the radar' once again.
This is a royal pisser: having to re-initialize the damn Linux to reset 
everything.

The OS X somehow takes control of what's inclusive in the 'boot club' 
and douches foreign drives.
Now I have the ExtFSManager system control and it DOES see the Linux 
partitions on the other drive.   They're all 'untitled' except for the 
swap drive which is labeled.

I'll try the 'linux rescue' in a moment.

But can't OS X play 'fair' and allow the Linux to be seen at start up?
Or is it a hardware problem of some sort?

Regards,

Ric.

On Mar 18, 2005, at 5:25 PM, Robert Story wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:38:37 -0800 Frederick wrote:
> FCL> partitions) till the installation successfully concluded and did a
> FCL> reboot.
>
> What happened when you rebooted?
>
> Try booting and holding down the option key, and see if a penguin icon 
> shows
> up.
>
> try booting the install cd, and selecting 'linux rescue'. does it 
> detect your
> linux partitions? if so, chroot to it, and run ybin -v.
>