Subject: Re: start linux - openfirmware?
From: Christopher Murtagh (christopher.murtagh@mcgill.ca)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 17:39:58 MST
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, david wright wrote:
>I had a fine working triple boot G4 - macos 9, macos X and YDL 2.1.
>Triple boot was handled fine by the linux boot partition and gave me the
>choice what to boot to. The problem is my start-up disk choice was
>changed from within macos X to boot os 9. So now the linux boot prompt
>is bypassed and i have no way to boot to linux. (since i can see no
>linux partitions from within macos.) I think i can boot linux from
>within openfirmware (opt - ctrl - o -f )? right?
Boot with the option key held down. You should see a HD icon with a
penguin. Select that and continue. Once you are in Linux, run ybin as
root. That should do it.
Cheers,
Chris
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