On 9/25/05, Kim Cascone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .... > - I read the info on yaboot and did the following: > - I reset NVRAM > - I booted into Open Firmware and tried to boot from the yaboot > manually but... > - still no luck
What did you do at the OF prompt? If you still have an untouched linux FS, then yaboot, yaboot.conf (in /etc), and your kernel should be all you need. Maybe you can do this again, write down exaclty what happens, and send it in a reply. > - so I loaded up the live disc of Ubuntu, installed the 'gparted' > package and looked at the iMac's drive (cause OS X disc utils UI sucks) > and I didn't want to read the unix man on disc utils at that point... > but 'gparted' let me see the entire drive and Linux (ext3) and New > World (HFS+) parts as well as the OS X HFS parts were all still > there... > maybe there is a 'rescue' option from the install disk? I think the chroot idea mentioned previously could work. Let us know if it did! > so I am pretty certain that the yaboot got hosed... > - I am assuming that when making a backup of the OS X (HFS) partition > you need to use something that doesn't try to take over the whole drive > -- and possibly clobber the yaboot.conf file in the process...any tips, > suggestions, URL's would be appreciated... > yaboot.conf is in /etc... which should still be there. Perhaps OF doesn't go to the bootstrap partition anymore. Somehow running ybin in the correct situation would help > so my questions are as follows: > - was it OS X Disk Utilities that clobbered the yaboot? If you ran nothing else that could have done this, then we can assume so. That is good to know! > - and how does one fix this running a Live Linux distro... > - side note: I tried booting using OpenFirmware and none of the parts > I entered seemed to work per the instructions on the penguinlinux.org > yaboot page this similar thing has happened to me.. the symlinks that yaboot.conf pointed to were off, so I tried booting from OF (can't remember if it worked, sorry).. But I recall reading a great deal about Open Firmware. Its good reading! Please let us know what you do, especially what happens in OF, and if the chrooting the mounted partition works! -- Chadwick
