Subject: Re: Dual Booting
From: Gavin Hemphill (hemphill@drea.dnd.ca)
Date: Tue Jun 26 2001 - 06:14:35 MDT
I assume you are using a new-world machine. If thats the case hold the
option key down at boot and select the disk icon with the tux in it.
Your problem will be solved.
G++
Edward Connor wrote:
>
> Hey folks, I need a “simple question” answered. After I installed YDL
> 2.0 Everything was great and dual booting was just fine.
>
> I updated my OSX partition and after running the update I no longer
> have the option to dual boot, it just goes straight to the Mac
> partition.
>
> I’m guessing that during the install of YDL 2.0 that a “bootloader”
> was installed on the bootloader partition and the open firmware was
> edited to direct the machine to open a script located on the
> bootloader partition. I’m also guessing that doing the update on OSX
> deleted those open firmware instructions and that’s why I am stuck
> here in Mac-Land with no way other than booting from the YDL disk and
> reloading the bootloader, to dual boot.
>
> Since the Mac doesn’t recognize the bootloader partition, I cant see
> the name of the file that is telling the machine to dual boot, so I
> can’t write instructions to Open firmware to fix the problem. Can
> someone give me the solution or tell me what to type in open firmware?
>
> My boot partition is hda9
> Osx is hda10
> Linux is hda13
>
> Please be gentle with your help I’m new to this stuff.
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