> > It was interesting, but I had a similar problem. At some point, yaboot > > stopped listening to my keyboard on boot. Everything booted and worked > > fine, but then I built a new 2.4.x kernel to test a firewire HD on my > > pismo and I ran into trouble. > > > > The kernel wouldn't boot, and I couldn't type a different image name > > into yaboot. I tried command-option-O-F, and all I got was a black > > screen. Eventually I got into MacOS by holding down the option key and > > booting the visual bootloader, and choosing MacOS. > > > > Running the Apple 'System Disk' utility cleared up all the issues. I > > can now boot into OF, and yaboot accepts input.... > > sounds like nvram corruption, macos causes this.
I've had kernel panics cause similar things (I usually lose the boot-device setting and have to reset it to my boot partition at the end of the disk. Yep, I know it should really be the first one instead ...) Resetting the NVRAM (command-option-p-r ??) should fix it. Michael