On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Kim Cascone wrote: > > On Mar 2, 2005, at 12:18 PM, David Pye wrote: > > >> this doesn't work either...I can get to the yaboot prompt but when I > >> type in 'linux single' or 'single' or other permutations I get a no > >> such file or directory > > > > Try pressing tab instead, and see what happens. > > nope all I get is 'Linux: old' > nothing else > I'll try the Ubuntu list...thanks! > If you've got the ubuntu install CD boot from that, then hit 'tab' at the yaboot prompt. There is an image called rescue (or something very like that) - it starts off for all the world like a fresh install (e.g. gets a dhcp address), then asks you which partition you want to rescue.
'vim' is on there, but on my iBook it couldn't find a terminfo file and dropped back to 'ascii' which makes line inserts/deletes amusing. but I managed to fix the damage I'd done to yaboot.conf, so it is usable. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce