Re: I lost yaboot!

[Peter "Voigt" <peter.voigt1@gmx.net>]

Am 08.06.2006 um 00:35 schrieb Felix C. Stegerman:

> * Petris Dimitrios <p3@venus.cslab.aueb.gr> [2006-06-07 18:57]:
> > I have a powerbook G4 and debian installed on it. I recently lost my
> > yaboot bootloader and it starts automatically with osx. Does anyone
> > know how to restore the bootloader without losing any data?
>
> If you still have a working yaboot.conf, you can boot from an install
> CD or a Live CD (I usually use a Ubuntu Live CD), chroot into your
> system and just run `ybin -v`.  Otherwise, assuming you didn't get
> into this trouble by having a bad yaboot.conf in the first place, you
> might be able to extract your yaboot.conf from the boot partition.  If
> you need any help with any of this, all you have to do is ask ;-)

You can use a debian-installer-cd too.

Go through the normal install-process until the point, where the  
question appears, how to use the disk (use whole disk or manuall  
partition). At that stage: DO NOT PARTITION YOUR DISC.

Change to the second console, make the needed mount-directories  
(mkdir), mount the debian-partition's appropiate, chroot into the  
debian-root-partition, mount /proc, run sbin (you need the complete  
path to sbin) and that' all. Umount /proc, exit chroot, reboot.

Bye
Peter Voigt