[ydl-gen] Booting YDL 6.2

[Bill Fink]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Keith wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 11:39 +0200, nello martuscielli wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Keith <ac7xc1nx at comcast.net> wrote:
> > 
> > >  I have looked at /boot/etc/yaboot.conf but this file seems to deal with
> > > the second boot menu after the initial one is displayed.
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > ## delay is the amount of time in seconds the dual boot menu (if one
> > ## is configured, by the presense of macos, macosx, etc options here)
> > ## will wait before choosing the default OS (GNU/Linux or the value of
> > ## defaultos=).  If you omit this then the value of timeout=
> > ## (converted to seconds) will be used.
> > 
> > delay=10
> > 
> > ## timeout is the amount of time in tenths of a second that yaboot
> > ## will wait before booting the default kernel image (the first image=
> > ## section in this config file or the value of default=).
> > 
> > timeout=40
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > regards
> > --
> > Power Mac G4 AGP 450MHz - CRUX PPC (32bit)/YDL
> 
> I went into /boot/etc/yaboot.conf
> and set up yaboot with these delay & timeout settings 
> and the boot menu times are the exact same as before. Am I modifying the
> wrong file?
> 
> partition=3
> timeout=600
> ## 600 / 10 = 60
> install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
> delay=60
> enablecdboot
> enableofboot
> enablenetboot
> macosx=/dev/sda3
> magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot

Did you re-run "ybin -v" after making the changes?
This is from memory as I'm no longer running any
YDL systems, but I believe that's the correct
procedure for installing the new yaboot.conf.

				-Bill