Subject: Re: mac OS 9.2.1
From: Trevor Marshall (trevor@risk2risk.com)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 15:44:22 MDT
yeah but what is happening there? Sounds similar to not being able to
boot to yaboot after booting to osX - firmware being written? hope they
fixed that in 10.1 - trying tomorrow.. last time that happened to me i
found some key combo on boot to enter the firmware - like option-ofw or
something, and set the boot partition. hmmm. i'm off to try the 9.2.1
upgrade now. hope i don't have to boot into install.
-TRev
"Terminus, Inc. Software Distribution" wrote:
>
> You should have read the mailing list earlier.
>
> >From the Yellowdog-general Mailing List
>
> Gavin Hemphill said:
>
> --Start--
>
> This is just a quick message for those of you who are about to upgrade
> your machines from 9.1 to 9.2.1. When you do this (I think it has
> something to do with the upgrade to the disk drivers) you'll find that
> your Boot partition suddenly gets mounted on the desktop and you can no
> longer boot into Linux. After a number of hours of hair pulling, I
> found that it is possible to recover without too much trouble. You will
> have to have a valid kernel for your machine in /boot/vmlinux for this
> to work. Here's what I did (note. this was with the text based installer):
> 1) boot from the install CD and proceed through the install to the point
> that you can edit the partitions. (N.B. make sure you select the custom
> install when that question shows up).
> 2) delete the Boot partition (In my case 35MB), and add it back in.
> 3) proceed to the mount screen and mount the partitions (the defaults
> should be correct but you may want to check them).
> 4) skip over the steps (down arrow key) until you get to the one to
> install the bootloader, and then do that one
> 5) reboot and things should be happy.
>
> This will install the default yaboot.conf so you'll have to re-edit it
> and run ybin if you had modified it.
> G++
>
> -- end --
>
> > I just downloaded the OS 9.2.1 updater and installed it without any
> > thought about what it might do to YDL... duh on me. Now i see the
> > "bootstrap" partition in MacOS, and I can't start up in YDL. I'm going
> > to try to start up off the installation disks and see if i can kick it
> > back into action, but meanwhile, does anybody have any comments or
> > suggestions? I'm running YellowDog on a Titanium G4, 500MHz, 512 RAM,
> > partition #13.
> >
> > thanks
> >
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