Subject: Re: YDL 2.1 & G3 B&W: Restoring yaboot parameters
From: Eric D. (liriodendron@mac.com)
Date: Sun Mar 17 2002 - 13:06:43 MST
on 17/3/02 11:39, Bob Beaton at bob@keyengine.com wrote:
> During a restart with OPT held down, I did not get a menu of bootable
> partitions. Rather, the machine appeared to hang-up very early in the
> boot-up sequence. During this boot-up sequence, the video went blank so
> I couldn't tell what was going on. Nevertheless I held OPT down for
> several minutes but didn't see any change in the machine state. I needed
> to cycle the power to get the machine responding again.
Option should do nothing in a B&W G3 on boot -- that feature (like the
FireWire target mode activated by holding down t on boot) was introduced
with the first G4s IIRC.
Similarly, holding down c will only work if you have a bootable CD (whatever
OS) in the CD-ROM.
> /dev/sda6 - MacOS system (4GB) /dev/sdb6 - MacOS user (4GB)
> /dev/sda7 - YDL bootloader (10MB) /dev/sdb7 - YDL swap (256MB)
> /dev/sda8 - YDL root "/" (4+GB) /dev/sdb8 - YDL swap (256MB)
> /dev/sdb9 - YDL "/home" (4+GB)
>
> I found the OPT-APPLE-O-F technique in the list archives (and YDL
> HOW-TO) as well. I was able to get into the OF settings page after a
> couple OPT-APPLE-P-R (5 chime) boot-ups; otherwise, the machine simply
> booted into MacOS. As shown above, my bootloader partition is /dev/sda7
> and my YDL root partition is /dev/sda8. Once in the OF setting page, I
> tried various settings for the
>
> setenv boot-device hd:x,\\:tbxi
(just guessing here) "boot hd:7,yaboot" may work for you. If that works,
"setenv boot-device hd:7,ofboot.b" would be what you're looking for (don't
ask me what that does, I just know it worked for me ;)
BTW One further comment to your earlier posted solution of pulling the PRAM
battery and using the YDL CD to install (& force your bootloader partition
to become startup). I managed to get yaboot back simply by doing a "faked"
install with the CD without having to do a PRAM reset or pulling the battery
(this was before I found out about the Open Firmware commands).
Eric.
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