On (25/09/05 22:36), Stelian Pop wrote: > Le dimanche 25 septembre 2005 à 12:28 -0700, Kim Cascone a écrit : > > > - I partitioned my sons G3 iMac into three parts: [OS X (HFS): 50G], > > [Ubuntu PPC (ext3): 5G], and [New World part/boot (HFS): 250M]... > > - everything installed fine, I was able to dual boot without a problem > [...] > > > so my questions are as follows: > > - was it OS X Disk Utilities that clobbered the yaboot? > > I have no idea, but I experienced the same thing once, without doing > anything special. IIRC OSX hanged once or twice in a row in the bootup > process and just after that I lost the yaboot menu. > > > - and how does one fix this running a Live Linux distro... > > I solved my problem by booting on the ubuntu CD and at a shell prompt: > mount your root partition (mount /dev/hdaX /mnt) with X being the > number of your root partition > chroot onto that partition (chroot /mnt) > reinstall yaboot (ybin -v)
It's been a while since I had this problem but I recall just resetting the PRAM: Hold down Cmd+Opt+P+R while booting until you hear it chime twice. Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
