[ydl-gen] default boot to OSX

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Ken:
As far as I know, I believe the easiest approach to try out is to 
select from within OS X, System Preferences and choose Startup Disk. 
Then choose OS X residing on whichever drive OS X lives in.  You can't 
miss it.  When done, then choose restart.  That should be it.  OS X 
doesn't see YDL anyway, at least, not when I look from within OS X and 
I have YDL 4.1 on the same internal drive but different partition.

When you later wish to boot into YDL, you should be able to press the 
Option key before Mac boots up (hold the option key down while the 
computer boots up) and you should then see the drives available to 
select to boot from.  Just use your mouse to select the appropriate 
drive.  Wait, of course, for the cursor to return to normal.  After you 
select the drive just hit your return key and that should be it.

At least, this has always worked for me; I've never had to touch 
yaboot.  I'm not an engineer, but before you do anything you may not be 
able to undo, why not try this suggestion and see if it works for you.  
If it works, that's it.  Why worry further?   If not, no harm done to 
anything anyway.

In the event it doesn't work for whatever reason, report that back to 
this list on this thread.  Someone else should be able to guide you 
from that point.

Best of Luck... Have a great weekend!

On Jul 14, 2006, at 10:15 PM, Kenneth Browne wrote:

> Hi all
> I have a G4-400 setup with OSX on one hard disk and YDL 4.0 on the 
> other. I have no problem booting to either system when the prompt 
> appears on the black and white yaboot screen, however, I'd like to 
> have it so that the default boot system would be OSX rather than YDL. 
> I assume (dangerous, I know) that it will involve doing some editing 
> of yaboot.config or something along those lines, but I don't have a 
> clue about what to change or where to find it. Please!
>
> Ken
>
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