After a full reformat including all partitions and a sucessfull install of MacOS 9 and Linux I still do not get the yaboot prompt. I can launch linux per the email below from Stew but I don't know why I can't get yaboot to work. Any ideas?
Sean -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stew Benedict Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 7:20 AM To: mandrake PPC support Subject: Re: no yaboot prompt! On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Sean Fay wrote: > After I had sucessfully installed Mandrake I had to reformat the hard drive > due to some space allocation mistakes I made. But after install I do not get > the yaboot prompt anymore. I have done the command-option-O-F thing and set > the boot device but that did not help. All I see is that stupid little mac > folder going back and forth between the question mark and the MacOS folder > icon. Then after a few seconds it defaults to macos. Any ideas?? > > > PowerBook G3 "bronze keyboard", 6GB HD, 128MB Ram, DVD > If you know your bootstrap partition, you can try to boot directly into yaboot: boot hd:X,\\yaboot with X=partition number Then try re-running ybin Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
