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Re: yaboot/openfirmware question



On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:46:23PM +0200, Han The Thanh wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have installed yaboot with macOS, OSX and debian onto a powerbook. It
> worked very well. Then when I tried to change starup disk in OSX, then the
> yaboot menu doesn't show up at booting; the machine immediately boots up to
> OSX. Booting to debian (using OF and the magic string boot hd:2,yaboot) and
> rerun ybin didn't help. How can I fix this problem?

if you followed directions and created your Apple_Bootstrap partition
first, before all MacOS[X] partitions you simply need to reset the
nvram by holding down command option p r.

reruning ybin will also work, but you MUST remove `nonvram' from
/etc/yaboot.conf before doing so.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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