[ydl-gen] Uninstall 4.01

[Eric Dunbar]

On 3/12/06, Kenneth Browne <kbrowne at alumni.umass.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>  I have a G4-400 with  OSX on one disk and  YDL 4.01 on the other. Most
> times when booting into either OS there seems to be an exceeding long
> delay while the machine tries to sort out the two hard disks. When I
> boot into OSX "searching local drives" takes forever although I
> eventually get booted and all is OK. The YDL disk does not show up on
> the OSX desktop, which makes me think the drive is on the verge of
> failure. I say "on the verge" because at times the boot process goes
> normally. Other times, when I try to boot YDL the system just hangs at
> the Yaboot prompt. (It should boot through to Linux with no intervention
> if everything is working.)
>
> Here's my question: If I just want to ditch YDL can I simply set the OSX
> disk as my boot disk and remove the offending YDL hard disk, or is there
> a Master Boot Record (Ya-bootloader) somewhere on the Mac disk that
> needs to be removed?

AFAIK you don't even need to bother setting the OS X disk as your
startup disk (to use Mac parlance) as your Mac should search all
attached drives for a bootable partition if it can't find the default
boot partition.

However, just to be on the safe side I'd boot into OS X and set it as
startup disk (so, yes, you can do precisely what you planned to do).

PS Where is the yaboot boot partition? On the YDL HD or the Mac OS X
HD? Also, what do you mean with set OS X as your boot disk? Do you
mean to set it as the default yaboot boot partition or the default Mac
startup disk?

Eric.