well, yes, but i did not do a reinstall. i boot off a backup drive image and use the restore in disk utility (panther) or carbon copy cloner (jaguar) (maybe).
also, my yaboot is first bootable partition on the disk, and the option i get from ybin.conf only allow me one osx alternate partition, but i have three versions of macos on my machine, as well as two of debian ( ) sometimes the option key stalls, and the penguin buttons have never worked. the ybin alternate is jaguar, which on my system is 1/2 debian packages (ports). so sometimes i have to boot that, but usually the option key will let me boot panther if i want (mostly for security), occasionally i have to reboot twice before i get it. if i want to boot a second debian or say another flavour of linux, it seems i have to fool with open firmware command or (my preference) run ybin, telling it to reset the nvram. but with that alternate debian, then i can always just zap pram or pull power to reset. beat a topic to death. reinstall mac os on a backup drive (clean) and then restore using disk utility. since i lost data i am really trying to keep nice clean backups. --- koham zaku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I've a dual boot, osx/debian (ibook 12' 1.2ghz) and > need reinstall osx. > Of course, i don't want to reinstall debian too. > I've found this (thanks binzhang): > > http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.ports.powerpc/browse_thread/thread/bd1f76e0daba307c/ff7254851521d267?q=restore+yaboot&lnk=nl&; > > "On most (but not all) models that use *yaboot*, you > don't need to bother > with a LiveCD or d-i to *restore* a lost *yaboot*. > Just boot with the > Option > key and *yaboot* should be an option. A different > method can work depending > not on the model, but on your partition layout, and > that is to zap the > PRAM (Cmd-Opt-P-R). Since you have already pasted > your parted output, I > can tell you that this second method WILL work for > you, guaranteed. No > mounting, no chroot, no ybin necessary, unless of > course you already > messed everything up by overwriting your bootstrap > partition with ybin > from d-i. " > > I would like to now if anyone as already made it and > got, after osx > reinstallation and zapping PRAM, a dual boot back. > > And if anyone could explain to me how does it work ? > I mean, when i reinstall osx, the sytem write boot > information in PRAM, > and so over yaboot ? > > Thanks > > Koham > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
