Subject: Re: uh oh
From: Gordon Neault (gordo-x@shaw.ca)
Date: Fri Feb 22 2002 - 08:20:26 MST
You probably have OSX as the default OS set in System Preferences: Startup
Disk.
You could have a look and see if the yaboot partition is listed as a
startup option (might not be there, though), and select it, or:
Startup with Option key depressed to go to the OF prompt.
On Friday, February 22, 2002, at 12:18 AM, Dave Doran-Marshall wrote:
> well well. i have a dual boot system. hd 1 has os9.2 and osx. hd 2 has
> linux, ydl. have been trying to fix the resolution/color depth in ydl,
> but now i can't even boot into ydl at all! when starting up or restarting,
> it would always give me yaboot and i could choose l, x, or m for which
> one i wanted to go to. i booted into os 9 (first time in months) and when
> i went back to osx, it automatically starts me in osx...no way to choose
> which one.
>
> i think i've heard of this happening before, but now i feel more like i
> shouldn't have sold my old mac. i shoulda just kept it to run ydl on.
>
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