Subject: Re: yaboot was destroyed by Mac OS X
From: Yukiko Takiguchi (ytakiguc@kt.rim.or.jp)
Date: Sat Jun 16 2001 - 22:55:35 MDT
Thanks John and Dan!
Both option 1 and 2 worked!
Now I put a piece of paper on the top of my PB's keyboard
with these charms.
TIL Article gave me some idea about Open Firmware.
And I keep watching how OS X dose bad thing...
Thank you, again,
Yukiko Takiguchi @ Syracuse, NY
At 1:04 AM -0400 6/15/01, John Canning wrote:
> For some reason, booting into Mac OS X changes the open firmware
> default boot settings.
>
> You have two options:
>
> 1. You can hold down four keys while rebooting to make the
> machine boot into open firmware. Those four keys are:
>
> option cmd o f
>
> Once you have the open firmware prompt, you can issue
> the command:
>
> boot hd:XX,yaboot
>
> Where the XX is replaced with the partition number of
> the boot sector (it's 10 in my case).
>
> 2. Or, you can follow the instructions Dan gave me to
> reprogram open firmware:
>
> setenv boot-device hd:10,ofboot.b
> reset-all
>
> Open Firmware is a pretty neat system. See TIL Article #60285 for
> a basic introduction.
>
> John
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