Subject: Re: yaboot from Mac (newbe)?
From: dovid (dovid@mac.com)
Date: Sun Mar 03 2002 - 08:59:13 MST
what exactly does ybin do? why is it needed?
thx,
dovid
At 2:13 PM -0500 3/2/02, Eric D. wrote:
>on 28/2/02 9:08, Jonathan Singer at jsinger@genome.wi.mit.edu wrote:
>
>>> (6) If I set a Mac OS partition as a startup disk I lose the
>>>ability to boot
>>> the Linux partition. How can I reset the Linux parition as a startup
>>> partition (with yaboot... don't quite understand how that works but I
>>> presume it's the boot loader).
>>
>> I have this too. (It has to do with "blessing" of partitions.) My fix is to
>> boot into Open Firmware (cmd-opt-O-F) and do a 'boot hd:x,yaboot' where x is
>> your root partition number. (Or is the boot partition number? I forget.) Run
> > ybin as root once you've logged in.
> >
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