reconfiguring yaboot after osx install
mutex
yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
29 Apr 2002 09:14:16 -0600
umm right i just remembered that what i put was so incredibly wrong.
It's:
> boot hd:9,\\yaboot
it's been a while... heh
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 00:32, mutex wrote:
> right, OSX/OS9 takes over the default boot loader if you try to use the
> boot selector in either. So the way you get back to yaboot, is running
> ybin again(the yaboot config updater). You have to get into the
> OpenFirmware prompt(PPC equivelent of a BIOS, but not as lame). To get
> to the OF prompt, i *think* you hold down command-option-O-F at boot
> time. Continue to hold it until your screen turns white and you get an
> OpenFirmware prompt, hurray!
> Now you have to boot yaboot from the prompt, to do this do
>
> > boot hd9:\\yaboot
>
> where 9, is the number of your ydl "boot" partition. That should get
> you to the yaboot prompt where you can load your system normally. Once
> you have it loaded, just run ybin as root.. and your default boot
> partition should be set to yaboot again.
> good luck
>
> On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 22:38, Chris Saunders wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > After YDL 2.2 was working wonderfully for me, I put OS X back on my
> > first partion. Now of course, OSX monopolizes the system and I've lost
> > my beautiful yaboot startup prompts! How do I make yaboot the active
> > boot manager again?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> >
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