On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 01:18:08PM -0500, Daniel Lamblin wrote: > * Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011225 13:01]: > > On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 11:12:33PM +0000, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > > It helps to know which machine you have. With a machine with OFW 3 > having 9 around only to toy with the firmware... is not the greatest > reason. After all, unlike 1.0.5 you can by default get to an > interactive OFW prompt without needing to set any variables through a > program or the serial port... which means you can do a lot of OFW > setting stuff without any OS. > But surely you use OS9 for classic mode... at least sometimes. Though > probably like me you wish you didn't. > > > > After installing Debian, I can only boot OS9. Typing either bootr or > > > bye at the Open Firmware prompt just boots OS9. I have tried using the > > > OS9 startup disk tool to select the OSX system folder but it still > > > boots OS9. > Okay.... well that's just not right behavior. > > > > Is there any way that I can boot OSX now ? > > There must be, but I'm not familiar with it. Perhaps holding the o key > > at startup, IIRC, will bring up a graphical startup menu from which you > > can select OSX. > With the ibook2: > I use the option key for this. Though at one time yaboot hadn't set up > the 800k boot partition for linux quite right and that caused the > graphical menu to crash rather than show the 3 icons for OSX linux and > OS9. Using a more current yaboot seemed to help a bunch.
Option, not o. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
