Bootloader woes

[Nick Stetich]

Hi Grant,

I've never had any luck booting with the option key; I
usually just get a blank screen.  However, using Open
Firmware has done the trick for me every time.  I
think there are several articles in the archives of
the yellowdog-general mailing list that deal with Open
Firmware commands and what's going on behind the
scenes.

This is the boiled down procedure that has worked for
me:

Assuming you have a computer with a new world ROM and
an IDE hard drive that you run YDL off of,

Boot into Open Firmware by holding cmd-option-p-r.  At
the command prompt, type

boot hd:x,yaboot

where x is the partition number of your boot
partition.  Once you get YDL booted, run ybin as root,
and that should update the PRAM so you boot into
yaboot every time.

Nick


--- Grant <gfl1@optonline.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Somewhere along the line, my PRAM configuration has
> changed and I am no 
> longer presented with a list of OSes to boot from -
> it jumps directly 
> to OSX.
> 
> This would be OK, if imperfect, except that when I
> boot using "option" 
> - and am presented with a list of alternatives
> (including YDL) - it 
> begins to boot but immediately the screen goes grey
> and the following 
> text appears:
> 
> ...OK
> copying OF device tree .......done
> initializing fake screen:  NVid, NVmac
> calling quiese ..........
> 
> ==> freeze <====
> 
> Any advice on what's going on and how to fix?
> 
> Grant
> 
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