On (16/03/05 07:18), Daniel E. Jonsen wrote: > I have Debian and Panther on a G4/350, but I have the luxury of having 2 > internal HDs, which might be more difficult with a PowerBook. Anyway, I > first installed Panther on hdb and used Disk Utility to wipe hda clean of > all partitions. Then I unplugged hdb so that there was no way the Debian > installer could *$!@ with it, and installed from a set of 14 Sarge testing > CDs. After reconnecting hdb, the small bootstrap partition on hda is still > the first blessed partition on the system, so yaboot is loaded first and I > get the dual-boot menu. > > The main reason I'm writing this note is because I got into a little bit of > nastiness when I needed to upgrade OS 9, which I use 99% of the time from > the Classic environment in Panther. In order to update QuickTime in OS 9, > I had to use the "Startup Disk" control panel and choose the OS 9 system > folder to reboot into pure OS 9. The problem is that this process > "unblessed" the bootstrap partition on hda, and I no longer had the > dual-boot menu to get into Linux. > > I found a "bless" shell command in Panther, but found its man page > confusing and I didn't really want to fry my whole system. I'm not even > sure if this command would bless a non-Apple OS partition, anyway. So I > booted from the first Debian install CD, started the installer, and went > through to the partitioning phase. At that point, I chose manual > partitioning, and told it NOT TO TOUCH any of the existing Linux (or > Panther) partitions except swap, then went to the next step, which is, I > think, the point where you must give the final OK to install the base > system. At this point, I kept selecting "Go Back", until I had the option > to abort the installation, which I did. After that, I rebooted, and voila! > the bootstrap partition was re-blessed, and I had my dual-boot menu > back. Phew. > > I admit that the process is a little hairy, and I probably wouldn't have > done it if I had anything really important on that machine. Does anyone > out there know of a "less hairy" way to reliably re-bless a bootstrap > partition? New-world macs, as far as I know, won't boot from an external > USB floppy drive, so the only way I can think of is to make a bootable > Debian CD with yaboot on it, set to boot the root partition on the HD. Any > hints on how one would create such a "rescue disk"? >From memory, I'm pretty sure that resetting the PRAM will put everything back to where it was: Apple+Alt+P+R as you boot up; hold them down through a couple of chime sequences and it should take you back to the yaboot menu.
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