YDL Installed OK - But Can't Boot Back to OSX! - FIXED!!!

[Mark Srebnik]

    Hi Paul,

    THANKS SO MUCH, that DID IT!!

    Emailing the list from my old OSX drive!!

    Feel so much better now!

    Realize now that a big part of my confusion over partition map change
    was I was thinking that you needed to change this on the Linux partition
    (hda).

    Now if I can just remember why in the world I wanted to install YDL3....
   
    ;-)

    Regards,

    Mark Srebnik
    Happy Linux/Mac User


on 6/29/03 12:02 AM, Paul Handly at phandly@earthlink.net wrote:

> so do 'pdisk /dev/hdb'
> then do the 'change type' thing - I think it's 't' but you can check
> that with '?'
> the partition you need to re-type is #1 -' Apple_Bootstrap'
> the type you need to change it to is 'Apple_partition_map'
> 
> then when you've changed it, hit 'w' to overwrite the current map (save
> changes)
> then reboot to test it out.
> 
> The option key thing only lets you select between what Open Firmware
> recognizes as valid boot partitions - Mac OSX gags on startup because
> it can't read it's own partition map, due to the Anaconda bug which
> changes the map type.  The best use of that is when you've messed up
> the startup disk settings by using apple's stuff instead of yaboot -
> then you can use the option key startup to kick yourself back into
> yaboot.
> 
> --
> Remember: until you open the box and look inside, Cartman's kitty is
> both alive and dead.
> 
> Paul Handly
> phandly@earthlink.net
> http://deusex.mojokstudios.net