[ydl-gen] default boot to OSX

[Kenneth Browne]

Derick Centeno wrote:
> 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.
> 

I think I've tried this (some time ago) However, I also think I 
installed a utility on the OSX side that allows OSX to see the Linux 
drife. It shows up on the desktop as a hard drive icon marked with a "/"

> 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.

I'll give this another try and see if it works/
> 
> 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 

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