On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:24:03PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > That'll bring you back to default booting MacOS if a) you keep it
> > > installed and b) your boot-device variable ever gets reset (a hard
> > > kernel crash often does that for me). OF seems to default to the
> > > first 'bless
> > That'll bring you back to default booting MacOS if a) you keep it
> > installed and b) your boot-device variable ever gets reset (a hard
> > kernel crash often does that for me). OF seems to default to the
> > first 'blessed' filesystem it can find, that's why having the
> > bootstrap partition
Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> That'll bring you back to default booting MacOS if a) you keep it
> installed and b) your boot-device variable ever gets reset (a hard
> kernel crash often does that for me). OF seems to default to the
> first 'blessed' filesystem it can find, that's w
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:53:09AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> Regardless of what Ethan thinks, I'm a far cry from a clueless newbie.
i don't think your a clueless newbie.
> Now imagine the newbie, having partitioned and set up his system the Wrong
> Way (tm), then forgotten about the detai
> > crash often does that for me). OF seems to default to the first 'blessed'
> > filesystem it can find, that's why having the bootstrap partition first is
> > nicer.
>
> Um. You still have Command-Option-O-F, which will get you to an OF prompt,
> at which point you can do 'boot hd:13,\\:tbxi' (ch
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 09:53:15AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote:
>
> Remember that physical order on disk doesn't necessarily mean the same
> thing as order in the partition map.
correct.
> AFAIR, you can have your partitions physically in any order you want
> (with the one exception beeing the f
Folks,
On 15 Sep, this message from Ethan Benson echoed through cyberspace:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 12:50:28PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote:
>>
>> The partition's location doesn't matter. Remember, you don't have to deal
>
> yes it does. OF won't boot it by default from default settings if its
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 02:23:09PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
> > That'll bring you back to default booting MacOS if a) you keep it
> > installed and b) your boot-device variable ever gets reset (a hard kernel
> > crash often does that for me). OF se
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 12:50:28PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote:
>
> The partition's location doesn't matter. Remember, you don't have to deal
yes it does. OF won't boot it by default from default settings if its
not first.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 08:01:07PM +0200, Roland Wegmann wrote:
> /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple
> /dev/hda2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh
> /dev/hda3 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh
> /dev/hda4 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh
> /dev/hda5 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh
> /dev/hda6 Apple_FWDri
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> That'll bring you back to default booting MacOS if a) you keep it
> installed and b) your boot-device variable ever gets reset (a hard kernel
> crash often does that for me). OF seems to default to the first 'blessed'
> filesystem it can find, that's w
> The partition's location doesn't matter. Remember, you don't have to deal
> with the broken BIOS that x86's have, and all the ass-backwards
> limitations of real mode, so it can be at the beginning or the end (on an
> iBook I've been using, the Apple_Bootstrap partition is the last one on
> the d
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Roland Wegmann wrote:
> Now I can't use vi anymore. But I need it to modify "yaboot.conf" etc. When
> I type for example "vi sources.list" I got the message "vi: wrapper couldn't
> execute /usr/bin/vi nor /bin/elvis-tiny". What's wrong with vi?
Do you have nvi installed? If s
Roland Wegmann wrote:
> Secondly, I want to change my keyboard layout from US to Swiss german (or at
> least German). On this maillist I heard a lot about linux keycodes. After my
> difficulties with "console common" I may ask you if linux keycodes are
> another way to adapt the keyboard? Are ther
Hi all,
I have dist-upgraded to woody a second time, because the first time was a
failure (I used "dpkg-reconfigure console-common" to change the keyboard
layout. This way I got an unusable keyboard). This time I re-partitioned the
IDE drive and then reinstalled the base system of potato 2.2r3
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