On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:24:34PM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > I recently managed to get linux installed on my titanium powerbook, > (it took me several days, because I had problems with some kernel > options and X). It is a dual boot machine, and things were working > fine until my kid updated the mac osx software (by clicking the > automatic software update function). The problem is that now I no > longer get the choice of linux or mac at boot time; the machine > automatically boots into the mac operating system. I believe the > Linux operating system is still there (the mac partition is still > small), but I don't know how to get access to it. I assume if i ran > ybin again, it would set things right. > > So, is there any way to reset the way this machine boots, or do I have > to reinstall from scratch and put my kid up for adoption?
Hold down Cmd-Opt-O-F while the system boots, then at the OpenFirmware prompt type 'boot hd:9,\\yaboot' (assuming that yaboot is installed on /dev/hda9; if not, adjust as appropriate). Then boot into Linux as usual and run ybin. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
