Re: yaboot not coming up

2005-10-10 Thread Derrik Pates
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 06:17:05PM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: > i understand that from time to time updates can blow away yaboot also > > just keep that procedure in mind. sure beats pc bioses though. Wouldn't a much easier solution be to hold the Option key at boot (assuming the machine is not

Re: yaboot not coming up

2005-10-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
i understand that from time to time updates can blow away yaboot also just keep that procedure in mind. sure beats pc bioses though. Dean Joubin Moshrefzadeh wrote: awesome! thanks Dean, that did the trick... On 10/6/05, *Dean Hamstead* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

Re: yaboot not coming up

2005-10-09 Thread Joubin Moshrefzadeh
awesome! thanks Dean, that did the trick...On 10/6/05, Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: thats real easy to fix, ill just wack some slashes on commentsfor clarity/*just get into the apples bios thingy (i know it has a real name.../*open firmware thats the one) by pressing at bootcommand + o

Re: yaboot not coming up

2005-10-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
thats real easy to fix, ill just wack some slashes on comments for clarity /*just get into the apples bios thingy (i know it has a real name... /*open firmware thats the one) by pressing at boot command + option + O + F/ /*at the openfirmware prompt type the following boot hd:9,yaboot /*howev

yaboot not coming up

2005-10-06 Thread Joubin Moshrefzadeh
This is probably more a Mac issue than a Debian one, but here goes anyway :) I was happily booting with yaboot for a while, until I needed to activate the root user in OS X (Tiger) on my 15" PB.. following the advice of some quick searches online, i ended up doing it the roundabout way, using the