Subject: Re: Bootstrap Icon
From: Stanley Sroka (stashu@mac.com)
Date: Sun Jan 13 2002 - 19:22:51 MST
On 1/11/02 12:40 AM, "Juan Manuel Palacios" <jmpalacios@mac.com> wrote:
> Hello Stanley, what happened to you is that Norton found a "valid"
> HFS partition and therefore mounted it on the desktop. But that beats
> the whole purpose of yaboot since the partition cannot be mounted in Mac
> OS for it to work. Boot up from the install CD and rerun the "ybin"
> command from a terminal to get the partition fixed. I don't suppose
> you'll be able to get yaboot working by going into Open Firmware and
> resetting the boot device to your yaboot one, since it was mounted. RUn
> the command aimed at your yaboot partition and use the -v flag to get
> verbose information.
>
> By the way, that's a great configuration: OSX & 9.2.1 with
> YellowDog 2.1. Cool book, exactly the one I have. But hey!, I beat you
> there: I have Mac OS 9.2.2, so there! What OSX have you got?!
>
> Well, give my suggestion I try and tell me how it goes.
>
> Regards,...
>
>
> Juan.
>
> On Tuesday, January 8, 2002, at 02:06 PM, Stanley Sroka wrote:
>
>> I have YD 2.1 installed on my Pismo along with OSX & 9.2.1. All works
>> fine (except for that open firmware/bootloader/startup disk thing) and
>> since my daughter ran Norton disk doctor a week ago, I have a hard
>> drive icon named "Bootstrap" on my desktop. Why is it there and what
>> should/could I do to get rid of it ?
>> Thanks for the reply. YD2.1 runs fine, even after resetting the bootloader in
open firmware when I've booted into 9.2.1. It's just this extra icon on the
desktop of 10.1.2. I didn't know there was a 9.2.2.
>
>
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