On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:46:34AM +0200, pejvan wrote: > On 23/07/01 12:46, "Han The Thanh" <thanh@informatics.muni.cz> 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? > > > > I have the same problem, and i cannot solve it. Here is all i've tried : > > Since i've installed mac os x, my G4 is unable to boot by itself : at the > boot i get weird picture : a torn system folder, and the boot process stops. > > I have to hold down 'halt' in order to be able to boot OS9 or 0SX > > But i simply cannot boot to linux anymore. I've tried everything : > > setenv boot-device hd:X,\\tbxi wrong, let ybin do it. > setenv boot-device hd:X,\\yaboot also wrong. > Where i've made X move from 0 to 10 (i have only 9 partitions on this > drive...) > > Anyway, I always get the damn same error in OF : "can't OPEN: hd:X,\\tbxi" > If i choose mac-boot, i get the torn system folder again > > Plus, i've zapped the pram (halt command P R) and typed in OF > 'set-defaults', but nothing new happens. it sounds like you didn't create your bootstrap partition correctly, please send me the output of mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda, also show me your /etc/yaboot.conf and dpkg -s yaboot | grep ^Version -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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