On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 01:18:05PM +0200, PARIS Jean-François wrote: > > Hi > > I've got an ibook. Macos 9 and a potato whre installed on it. > During the boot sequence yaboot was starting and I could chose beetwenn macos or debian > Yesterday I upgraded to MacOS X. Now my ibook boots directly under macOS X and I can't tell yaboot anymore to boot Linux. > > How can Y do to get Yaboot back, in order to choose between MacOS X or debian ? easy, when MacOSX is installed it sets the OF boot-device variable to its own bootstrap partition, since you followed my documentation in mac-fdisk-basics and yaboot-faq you created your 800K Apple_Bootstrap partition so it appears BEFORE all MacOS partitions, including OSX, right? if so all you need to do is reset the nvram: hold down command option p r while cold booting, your machine will reboot itself, keep the keys down until it reboots itself 3 times. then release and it will boot to the ybin boot menu again. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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