On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Vincent Danen wrote: > Ok, I had to reinstall OS X on my G4 the other day and it reset OF and > I suspect messed with yaboot as well. When I boot my G4 now, it takes > me right into OS X. So I thew my 8.2 CD in to boot into rescue mode, > chrooted /mnt, and tried to run ybin. It tells me that > /usr/local/yaboot/yaboot doesn't exist; the /usr/local/yaboot directory > does exist, but there is nothing in it. > > I had to mount /proc in the chroot to eliminate an error about being > unable to write to nvram (setting OF settings I bet), but I can't > figure out what's going on here. Trying to look at my G3 doesn't help > because the layout for yaboot is a little different. > > Any ideas how I can get my cooker install back up and running without > doing a reinstall of it as well? >
If it's recent cooker, yaboot/ybin files have been moved: [stew@powerbook stew]$ rpm -ql yaboot /etc/yaboot.conf /usr/lib/yaboot/addnote /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot /usr/sbin/mkofboot /usr/sbin/ofpath /usr/sbin/yabootconfig /usr/sbin/ybin But things should be functional: [root@powerbook mysql]# ybin -v ybin: Installing first stage bootstrap /usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot onto /dev/hda10... ybin: Installing primary bootstrap /usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot onto /dev/hda10... ybin: Installing /etc/yaboot.conf onto /dev/hda10... ybin: Setting attributes on ofboot... ybin: Setting attributes on yaboot... ybin: Setting attributes on yaboot.conf... ybin: Blessing /dev/hda10 with Holy Penguin Pee... ybin: Updating OpenFirmware boot-device variable in nvram... As Brice said, you can manually set OF to point to the right partition also. I don't know that OF has a reboot, but shut-down will power down from OF. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
