Subject: Re: Can't get macos to boot from yaboot
From: Todd Sizemore (tasize0@pop.uky.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 06:07:54 MDT
Ken Simpson wrote:
> 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.
Thanks, that worked like a charm!
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