If you have OS X installed too then I'm fairly sure that you'll have two more partitions - an OS X boot partition and your main OS X partition. (No swap partition because OS X uses a swap file). It's possible that the main OS X partition acts as it's own boot partition - I don't have my iBook handy to check.
If you want to you can select which OS to boot by entering OpenFirmware at startup (cmd-alt-o-f, I think) and manually selecting a boot partition. Or you can hold 'alt/option' at startup to enter a simple graphical boot partition selector.
Fortunately yaboot lets you specify where all your installed OSs live and lets you select which one you want to boot using a menu which is loaded from the yaboot boot partition. This means you always boot from the yaboot boot partition, other than on the odd ocassion when OS X decides to change the OF boot partition default (sometimes happens during software update) in which case you use OF to bypass OS X, boot Linux and run ybin to restore the PRAM setting.
You could read all about it here: http://www.openfirmware.org/
Or sing along to the OpenFirmware song: http://www.openfirmware.org/1275/misc/ofwsong.au
Cian Duffy wrote:
writes your yaboot.conf to the boot sector/prom/whatever the hell the PPC verison is of the boot sector
/sbin/ybin as root
ensure your yaboot.conf is in good nick, it seems you've close to destroyed yours.
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:22:52 -0500, beartooth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:00:42 +1100, Greg Hamilton wrote:
Did you run ybin after editing yaboot.conf?
Errr .... Ummm.... Duhhhh.... ybin ...??? What's ybin? How do I run it? (and why should I? what does it do?)
-- Beartooth Implacable, Linux Evangelist & Gadfly neo-redneck, curmudgeonly codger with FC1 & YDL 4.0 Pine 4.61, Pan 0.14.2; Privoxy 3.0.1; Opera 7.54, Firefox 1.0 Bear in mind that I have little idea what I am talking about.
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