Re: reinstalling osx
well, yes, but i did not do a reinstall.
i boot off a backup drive image and use the restore
in disk utility (panther) or carbon copy cloner
(jaguar) (maybe).
also, my yaboot is first bootable partition on the
disk, and
the option i get from ybin.conf only allow me one osx
alternate
partition, but i have three versions of macos on my
machine,
as well as two of debian ( )
sometimes the option key stalls, and the penguin
buttons
have never worked. the ybin alternate is jaguar, which
on my
system is 1/2 debian packages (ports). so sometimes i
have
to boot that, but usually the option key will let me
boot
panther if i want (mostly for security), occasionally
i have
to reboot twice before i get it.
if i want to boot a second debian or say another
flavour of
linux, it seems i have to fool with open firmware
command
or (my preference) run ybin, telling it to reset the
nvram. but
with that alternate debian, then i can always just zap
pram
or pull power to reset.
beat a topic to death. reinstall mac os on a backup
drive (clean)
and then restore using disk utility. since i lost
data i am really
trying to keep nice clean backups.
--- koham zaku <kohzak@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've a dual boot, osx/debian (ibook 12' 1.2ghz) and
> need reinstall osx.
> Of course, i don't want to reinstall debian too.
> I've found this (thanks binzhang):
>
>
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.ports.powerpc/browse_thread/thread/bd1f76e0daba307c/ff7254851521d267?q=restore+yaboot&lnk=nl&;
>
> "On most (but not all) models that use *yaboot*, you
> don't need to bother
> with a LiveCD or d-i to *restore* a lost *yaboot*.
> Just boot with the
> Option
> key and *yaboot* should be an option. A different
> method can work depending
> not on the model, but on your partition layout, and
> that is to zap the
> PRAM (Cmd-Opt-P-R). Since you have already pasted
> your parted output, I
> can tell you that this second method WILL work for
> you, guaranteed. No
> mounting, no chroot, no ybin necessary, unless of
> course you already
> messed everything up by overwriting your bootstrap
> partition with ybin
> from d-i. "
>
> I would like to now if anyone as already made it and
> got, after osx
> reinstallation and zapping PRAM, a dual boot back.
>
> And if anyone could explain to me how does it work ?
> I mean, when i reinstall osx, the sytem write boot
> information in PRAM,
> and so over yaboot ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Koham
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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