YDL corrupted on G5 dual-boot machine after reboot

[Kathryn Tate]

What do you mean by Mac OS being the "last on the list"?

If I understand you, you need to reinstall with MacOS being on the 
first extended partition. Try that.

I hope this helped.

Kathryn



On Sep 6, 2005, at 8:06 AM, Sanjay Bhatnagar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I installed Mac OS and YDL on my desktop G5 machine.  Mac OS partition
> was the last on the disk and the free-space was used for YDL
> installation.  After installing YDL, and booting the machine in Linux,
> all worked just fine.  However after I re-booted the machine in Mac OS
> (which also worked fine) and then back into Linux, YDL did not boot
> well.  All of /var is gone and it complained about various things
> failing while booting.  It ultimately cannot start X and comes with a
> an error message saying:
>
>  Sever Authorization directory (daemon/ServAuthDir) is set to
> /var/gdm but this does not exist.
>
> This is the second time this is happening (after the first time, I
> reinstalled YDL).  Can someone help and tell me what's going on and
> what I am doing wrong?
>
> Regards,
> sanjay
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