Re: linux no longer bootable after mac os upgrade

2004-06-25 Thread Ric Otte
Thanks very much! My boy is very grateful that he gets to stay in the house and isn't going to be put up for adoption. I must agree with the person who recently said that running Debian on the mac is very different from running it on a pc. Thanks again, Ric

Re: linux no longer bootable after mac os upgrade

2004-06-25 Thread Derrik Pates
Colin Watson wrote: 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. Or you can hold the Option key at boot, and a

Re: linux no longer bootable after mac os upgrade

2004-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
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 m

linux no longer bootable after mac os upgrade

2004-06-25 Thread Ric Otte
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 functio