Subject: Re: Boot-CD doesn't contain System Folder?
From: perry phillips (pm_perry@pacbell.net)
Date: Mon Aug 06 2001 - 12:54:23 MDT
Once you know the OF device name of the IDE drive, you can boot from OF:
boot [ide-devicename:XX],\\yaboot
where XX is the boot partition on that drive.
It's probably worth trying permutations of some theme like:
boot ide:11,\\yaboot
if no one has any better suggestions...
regards,
perry
(option + command + "o" + "f" for OF prompt)
>At 6:01 AM -0500 2001/08/06, Takashi Oe wrote:
>>On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Chris Pepper wrote:
>>
>>> But despite what the docs say, I don't get a YDL option when
>>> booting my G4 with Option held down, and YDL on the secondary IDE
>>> disk. I only get Mac OS X and Mac OS 9 icons.
>>
>>I don't know which doc you are refering to, but the doc, "A Guide to
>>Installing...", which came with the CD, says to "Hold the 'C' key..." not
>>"Option".
>
> C boots from the CD-ROM. After completing the installation,
>the docs say I can hold option to boot YDL (via yaboot on my G4),
>but instead I only get options for 9 & X (and the CD, if inserted).
>I now have an installed but inaccessible YDL installation on my
>secondary IDE disk. Perhaps if I grokked Open Firmware, I'd know how
>to specify that partition in OF terms, but I don't.
>
>
> Chris
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