Subject: Re: What's the deal with bootstrap (can't find YDL to boot now)?
From: Bo Brinkman (brinkman@cs.princeton.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 14:18:02 MST
Read the note about this on yellowdog's web site. It was about halfway
down the page last time I looked.
Marc Stergionis wrote:
> Went through a nice clean install of YDL2.1 (downloaded from the McGill
> site ... thanks!) and configured.
>
> As instructed in the installer, I created a 10MB YDL boot partition,
> which the installer then constructed at the end of my install. I told
> the boot partition config window I wanted my default boot to be Mac OS 9.
>
> When I rebooted, there seemed to be no option for YDL to boot. When I
> then restarted the Mac OS and went to Open Firmware, I saw only the OS9
> and OS X partitions available for boot, no YDL boot option.
>
> From what I could tell, the bootstrap partition is an HFS volume, but
> it's not on my desktop, either.
>
> How do I boot into YDL?
>
> Thanks
>
> -ms
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