Subject: Re: who knows OF syntax?
From: Tim ODriscoll (tim@StokePogesWay.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2001 - 12:45:38 MST
I find that when MacOS plays around with the boot partition, booting into
OF and typing;
boot hd:2,,yaboot
Does the trick. That's assuming that ybin has made yaboot at home on
/dev/hda2.
HTH,
Tim
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, jennix wrote:
> Dear Y'all,
>
> thanks, but my YD cd is 2000 miles away... any other suggestions?
>
> peace,
> jennifer
>
> At 10:58 AM 12/19/2001, Gotse Grosdanof wrote:
> >Just boot from YDL CD and hit TAB at boot prompt, then Type "cd-linux
> >root=/dev/hdb12" (without the quotes-and hdb12 is just an example, just make
> >sure it is your root partion) then after linux boots, login and open a
> >terminal and run "/usr/sbin/ybin"
> >(without the qoutes) and then try rebooting computer and see if bootloader
> >runs...it should!
> >
> >jennix wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Geeks,
> > >
> > > I installed 10.1 and 9.22 on my box and it fubar'd my carefully constructed
> > > ybin boot so that even if i get to my ybin/OF menu using the "option"
> > > key i cannot boot to linux. It just tosses me back to a messed up looking
> > > "blus window with my 9.ss, 10.1 and YD options again...
> > >
> > > can anyone tell me the correct syntax to type at the "Boot:" prompt to get
> > > back to my linux system?
> > >
> > > peace,
> > > jennifer
>
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