[ydl-gen] default boot to OSX

[Jason DeVita]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Kenneth Browne wrote:
> 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/

I believe you can also add the line:

   defaultos=macosx

to the /etc/yaboot.conf file.  Then run:

   /sbin/ybin

to commit the change.  That should still give you the choice of OS, with 
OSX being the default.

-Jason