Subject: Re: Can't get macos to boot from yaboot
From: Ken Simpson (ksimpson@optushome.com.au)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 00:18:26 MDT
At 3:59 PM -0400 12/6/01, you wrote:
>Hello all, I am a beginner to yellow dog linux and linux in general
>and am having quite a predicament with yaboot. After setting up ydl
>2 I tried to reboot into macos but when I selected "m" in yaboot it
>will say loading macos... and freezes. I am running an imac
>dvse(2000) and any help would be appreciated.
Hey - exactly the problem I had. Figured out it was because YDL
assumes that MacOS is on partition 1 of the same drive that YDL is
on. Usually fair, but prob in your case (as it was in mine) just
wrong.
Your need to do 2 things.
boot into linux and get a console
then 1. go to /etc/yaboot.conf and edit the file (I use vi)
change the line macos=/dev/hdxn (where x is a,b,c,d depending on which drive)
and n is 1,2,3,4,5 etc
depending on which partition number the system folder resides (use
pdisk to find the number)
(remember to backup before you use pdisk - this can trash everything)
once this is edited and saved, you need to tell yaboot to use it.
To do this you should be able to just type ybin and leave it at that.
next restart all should work as advertised.
-- Regards Ken mailto:ksimpson@optushome.com.au
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