yaboot won't boot OS X

[Jason Blome]

Paolo,

   You may want to try restoring all of the default settings to your P-RAM, 
you can do this by holding Option - Command - P - R while your MAC boots.  
Then, when you reboot, hold down the Option key, Open Firmware should 
present you with icons for all of your bootable partions, if you're lucky, 
it may find OSX.  I have had no luck with this, but it has been recommended 
to me, but I can't figure out why Mac-On-Linux can find my OSX partition and 
boot it, but Open Firmware cannot.  For now I am just accessing my OSX 
partitions through MOL, but I guess if I don't come up with something better 
soon, I will reinstall OSX, which I am really trying to avoid.

Cheers,
Jay



>From: "Paolo G. Cordone" <pamolo@indigo.ie>
>Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>To: YDL Newbie <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>Subject: Re: yaboot won't boot OS X
>Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 22:33:52 +0100
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>      I just finished getting all of my yellow dog 3.0 installation up and
>>running, but it seems that now I can't get yaboot or open firmware to boot
>>my OS X partition.  I find this strange because I have no problem booting
>>this OS X partition through mac-on-linux, nor did I have a problem booting
>>this with YellowDog 2.3.  When I try to boot the OS X partition from the
>>yaboot prompt I get the following error: "DEFAULT CATCH, code=fffffff6."  
>>My
>>yaboot.conf file and the output of pdisk -l follow.  I am running 
>>YellowDog
>>3.0 on a 2002 15" PowerBook g4.  Any insight into this problem would be
>>greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Jay
>
>Jay,
>
>I have had the same problem, although I use an OldWorld Mac (G3 beige 
>desktop) at work. After installing YDL 3 onto a second hard disk, my main 
>HD containing OS X 10.2.5 became unusable. By this I mean that when I boot 
>up, the open firmware screen comes up with a DEFAULT CATCH message you get 
>which prevents me from booting into X. I get the 'bye' option of continuing 
>using classic (which lets me boot off a CD), but if I try the 'boot' with 
>the default device, it tells me that the CLAIM cannot be executed. Typing 
>'reset-all' did not work.
>
>If I boot off classic, I can see all the files on the hard disk itself, so 
>data has not been lost. I am not so sure how to reset the firmware.
>In one of the howtos, there is some explanation about doing something 
>similar for yaboot and NewWorld machines. It says to type 'printenv' and 
>then 'setenv boot-device hd:x,\\:tbxi', with 'x' indicating the partition 
>to boot from.
>
>Have you tried that? I am at home now and will return to my office only on 
>Tuesday, as we have a long weekend here in Ireland, but I am a bit anxious 
>that I will have to re-install OS X, plus upgrades and all the applications 
>I had, if nothing will bring back my hard disk.
>
>Let me know if you find a solution.
>
>Ciao,
>
>Paolo
>--
>Paolo G. Cordone
>Book Review Editor
>First Monday - the peer-reviewed journal on the Internet
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>
>
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