[ydl-gen] reinstalled osx and bootx is gone

Christopher Murtagh christopher.murtagh at mcgill.ca
Thu Sep 1 23:04:28 MDT 2005


On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> Also, command-option-p-r at chime time (boot) may get yaboot working 
> again.


  Uhh, no. This will reset the PRAM, and not help yaboot at all since it 
relies on the boot-device setting in the PRAM to work.

  The way to get yaboot working again is to boot up holding down the option 
key. This will boot into a boot device selector. Wait for the spinny 
cursor to stop, and it should show you the bootable partitions. Usually 
one for OS X and another for linux (complete with the Penguin). Boot into 
Linux and as root run ybin to set boot-device to the yaboot boot 
partition. Everything should be well again.

Cheers,

Chris


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