On 9/2/05, Christopher Murtagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Eric Dunbar wrote: > > Also, command-option-p-r at chime time (boot) may get yaboot working > > again. > > Uhh, no. This will reset the PRAM, and not help yaboot at all since it > relies on the boot-device setting in the PRAM to work.
Hmm. Methinks that's *precisely* what one can choose to do (i.e reset PRAM). Usually (always?... this is how I've done it always) the yaboot partition is the first bootable partition on a drive which means that a PRAM reset will (and *does*, I can tell you from first hand experience) restore yaboot as the default boot device (since the PRAM reset resets the boot device to the first logical (?) partition). > The way to get yaboot working again is to boot up holding down the option > key. This will boot into a boot device selector. Wait for the spinny > cursor to stop, and it should show you the bootable partitions. Usually > one for OS X and another for linux (complete with the Penguin). Boot into > Linux and as root run ybin to set boot-device to the yaboot boot > partition. Everything should be well again. Yes, this is an alternate solution (takes a little longer than command-option-P-R ;-). Eric. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
