On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:06:04 +1100, Peter Gort wrote: > Tom, > > yaboot is in Open Firmware, which is not usually reset by Mac OS X > installer. To revert to normal firmware settings, you need to "zap > PRAM". To do this, restart the computer and hold down the cmd(apple) - > option - p - r key combination. After a few seconds of holding down > that combination of keys, the computer will spontaneously reboot. Keep > holding down those keys until the computer has spontaneously rebooted a > total of 3 times. > > That should remove yaboot routine from the Open Firmware. If the > problem still persists (unlikely) you can edit the open firmware > settings, send me a message if you need to know how to do that. > > HTH, > Peter
Unfortunately for Tom, if Tom followed recommended procedure, command-option-p-r will only dump him back into yaboot, yet again b/c yaboot will be the first partition ;-). A few solutions I can think of for you (Tom): 1.hold down the option key at reboot time to bring up the OpenFirmware OS selector (temporary hack, pointless with one OS and yaboot); 2. in OS X, go to the Startup Disk System preferences pane and re-select your OS X partition as the startup disk. This will rewrite your PRAM to use OS X. Problem: If you ever command-option-P-R again you will have yaboot taking over the boot process again; 3. delete the yaboot partition using pdisk from the OS X Terminal.app. To activate pdisk you will have to type sudo pdisk. ? in pdisk will display the help listing. Please note, however, that using pdisk is a dangerous thing. If you make a mistake you can easily destroy your OS X partition; 4. fire up Disk Utility (I think that's what it's called... I'm in Ubuntu so I can't check ;) and reformat the YellowDogLinux partition to OS X thereby reclaiming the space you used for YDL (you may have to use pdisk to get things started by destroying YellowDogLInux partition); 5. REINSTALL OS X *yet again* but this time make sure that you format the whole drive before you proceed with the install (don't use reformat the OS X partition). Make sure you have access to *all* HD space that your HD will give you (right now you're probably missing a few GB). Eric. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
