no yaboot prompt!
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 Sean
Re: no yaboot prompt!
On 10 Oct 2001 00:19:49 -0700, 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 Sean Did your HD reformat include the Bootstrap partition too? Also, did the install CD carry out the bootstrap setup successfully? Barry
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 -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
RE: no yaboot prompt!
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 -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
RE: no yaboot prompt!
Ah Ha!!! I have found the culprit ... when I went to do the openfirmware thing as the installation advises I either wrote it down wrong (probable) or it was mispelled ... the correct syntax is setenv boot-device hd:9,\\:tbxi whereas I replaced the comma with a semi-colon. Anyhow thanks Sean -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sean Fay Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 12:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: no yaboot prompt! 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 -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
