yellowdog-newbie Digest, Vol 5, Issue 33

[Peter Gort]

Tom,

yaboot is in Open Firmware, which is not usually reset by Mac OS X 
installer.  To revert to normal firmware settings, you need to "zap 
PRAM".  To do this, restart the computer and hold down the cmd(apple) - 
option - p - r key combination.  After a few seconds of holding down 
that combination of keys, the computer will spontaneously reboot.  Keep 
holding down those keys until the computer has spontaneously rebooted a 
total of 3 times.

That should remove yaboot routine from the Open Firmware.  If the 
problem still persists (unlikely) you can edit the open firmware 
settings, send me a message if you need to know how to do that.

HTH,
Peter

On 26/01/2005, at 7:52 AM, Derick Centeno wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 15:00, Tom Bombaci Jr wrote:
>> We're installing on Mac OS X 10.3.7.
>> Now, another twist: I reinstalled 10.3.7 to get rid of the squirrelly
>> YDL installation, and, now, I still get the yaboot screen, even tough
>> YDL is not on the system any more (I did an erase and install, so 
>> there
>> should have been a clean installation of OS X).  The yaboot defaults 
>> to
>> Linux, so I end up with having to restart the system if I don't watch
>> closely enough.
>>
> Just a Guess....
> Is it possible that on the Install CD of MacOS X there MAY exist a
> program equivalent to pdisk which could be used to scan the partitions
> on the drive?  If so then you could use it to remove that partition.