Re: Dual-boot problem with OSX 10.3.9 (OT ish)
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:28:17 +0100
James Tappin <sjt@star.sr.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
JT> I have a G3 iBook that is supposed to dual-boot Debian/Sarge and
JT> MacOS X.
JT>
JT> I use the yaboot boot loader, but since the latest OSX release
JT> (10.3.9) I can only boot Linux. Whenever I try to boot OSX it comes
JT> up with the Apple logo then powers itself down again. I've tried
JT> rerunning ybin with no joy.
JT>
JT> My question therefore is: Has anyone else had a similar problem and
JT> if so have you found a solution (e.g. a change in the yaboot config
JT> files)?
I think I may have found something here (at least the problem's gone).
It looks as if the upgrade managed to trash the hardware clock setting,
and in addition when I booted to Linux, the wireless base station was
weak so that the network was effectively down when ntpdate tried to run
-- as a result on Linux I was getting a date of 1-Jan-1904. After
manually running ntpdate on Linux I can now boot both OSes. Wierd!!!
(I can only assume that OSX checks and won't run before its release date).
James
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