YDL Installed OK - But Can't Boot Back to OSX!
Ron Smith
yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri, 27 Jun 2003 14:40:10 -0700
Try holding down the "option" key during boot. This should bring up a=20
screen with options to boot from any bootable partition that is=20
recognized by the firmware.
-Ron
On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 03:22 PM, Mark Srebnik wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> Thanks for trying to help...
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> When I hold 'd' at startup I boot into YDL.
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> When I hold 'd' at startup I boot into OSX, at first see gray apple=20
> then a circle with diagonal line through it.
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> Tried command df -k....see terminal text shown below. It shows problem=20=
> I'm having identifying proper hard drive partition to do pdisk update.
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> Can you or others advise...need to get back into OS X on my desktop=20
> Mac...thank goodness I have a iBook as backup....;-)
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> Thanks!
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> Mark
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> [root@localhost root]# df -k
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda12 50887100 2270864 46031264 5% /
> none 773240 0 773240 0% /dev/shm
> [root@localhost root]# /sbin/pdisk -l
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> Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda'
> #: type name length base ( size )
> 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
> 2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 56 @ 64
> 3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 56 @ 120
> 4: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 56 @ 176
> 5: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 56 @ 232
> 6: Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 512 @ 288
> 7: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 800
> 8: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1312
> 9: Apple_Bootstrap untitled 2048 @ 1824 ( 1.0M)
> 10: Apple_HFS "Mac OS X" 129465944 @ 104975696 ( 61.7G)
> 11: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1572864 @ 3872 (768.0M)
> 12: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 103398960 @ 1576736 ( 49.3G)
> 13: Apple_Free Extra 8 @ 234441640
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> Device block size=3D512, Number of Blocks=3D234441648 (111.8G)
> DeviceType=3D0x0, DeviceId=3D0x0
> Drivers-
> 1: 23 @ 64, type=3D0x1
> 2: 36 @ 120, type=3D0xffff
> 3: 21 @ 176, type=3D0x701
> 4: 34 @ 232, type=3D0xf8ff
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> Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hdb'
> #: type name length base ( size )
> 1: Apple_Bootstrap Apple 63 @ 1
> 2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 56 @ 64
> 3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 56 @ 120
> 4: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 56 @ 176
> 5: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 56 @ 232
> 6: Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 512 @ 288
> 7: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 800
> 8: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1312
> 9: Apple_HFS "Maxtor-14.5" 30408704 @ 1824 ( 14.5G)
> 10: Apple_HFS "Maxtor-100" 209711192 @ 30410528 (100.0G)
> 11: Apple_Free Extra 8 @ 240121720
>
> Device block size=3D512, Number of Blocks=3D240121728 (114.5G)
> DeviceType=3D0x0, DeviceId=3D0x0
> Drivers-
> 1: 23 @ 64, type=3D0x1
> 2: 36 @ 120, type=3D0xffff
> 3: 21 @ 176, type=3D0x701
> 4: 34 @ 232, type=3D0xf8ff
>
> pdisk: can't open file '/dev/hdc' (No medium found)
> [root@localhost root]# /sbin/pdisk -l/dev/hda12
> /sbin/pdisk: invalid option -- /
> /sbin/pdisk: invalid option -- e
> /sbin/pdisk: invalid option -- /
> /sbin/pdisk: invalid option -- a
> /sbin/pdisk: invalid option -- 1
> /sbin/pdisk: invalid option -- 2
> pdisk: bad usage - bad arguments
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> version 0.8a2 (16 May 2000)
> pdisk [-h|--help]
> pdisk [-v|--version]
> pdisk [-l|--list [name ...]]
> pdisk [-r|--readonly] name ...
> pdisk [-i|--interactive]
> pdisk name ...
> [root@localhost root]# /sbin/pdisk -l hda12
> pdisk: can't open file 'hda12' (No such file or directory)
> [root@localhost root]# /sbin/pdisk hda12
> pdisk: can't open file 'hda12' (No such file or directory)
> [root@localhost root]# /sbin/pdisk/dev/hda12
> bash: /sbin/pdisk/dev/hda12: Not a directory
> [root@localhost root]# /sbin/pdisk -l hda
> pdisk: can't open file 'hda' (No such file or directory)
> [root@localhost root]# /sbin/pdisk -l dev/hda
> pdisk: can't open file 'dev/hda' (No such file or directory)
> [root@localhost root]# /sbin/pdisk -l hda12
> pdisk: can't open file 'hda12' (No such file or directory)
> [root@localhost root]#
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> -------Original Message-------
> From: Steve Munsell <steve@contagiousgraphics.com>
> Sent: 06/27/03 11:12 AM
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: YDL Installed OK - But Can't Boot Back to OSX!
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> Try booting holding the "d" key (default finds first system on disk)
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> Try booting holding the "x" key (should force os x)
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> df -k shows partition names
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> On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 04:11 PM, Mark Srebnik wrote:
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>> Hi again,
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>> Made it through the YDL install process. Can boot into YDL 3 OK.
>>
>> But can't boot back into OSX on my other drive....
>>
>> Have tried following Dan Burcaw's instructions for updating 'pdisk'
>> but having problem properly identifying the Linux drive by its proper
>> name.
>>
>> What do I type in Terminal to get list of hard drive/partition names?
>>
>> Should I do pdisk update or something else to get this fixed?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mark
>> -------Original Message-------
>> From: Mark Srebnik <mark@MarkSrebnikArchitect.com>
>> Sent: 06/27/03 05:48 AM
>> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>> Subject: Re: YDL Install Setup Advice Needed
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Michael,
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>> Thanks again...think it's clear now...off to Linuxland...
>>
>> Mark
>>
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>> on 6/27/03 6:21 AM, Michael Loose at m.loose@arcor.de wrote:
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>>> Good luck in LinuxLand and feel free to ask again if i should miss =
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>>> express myself clearly
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>>>
>>>> Just want to clarify a few points you make...see my comments below.
>>>>
>>>> Would greatly appreciate it if you or others could clarify.
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