turn the machine off, then hold down command option p r while booting,
the machine should continuously reboot itself until you release the
keys. let it do so three times.
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 03:30:06AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> I have Debian Sid installed on my iBook G4 1 Ghz. I also have Mac OS X
> 10.3. My "fdisk -l" output is attached as "fdisk-l".
>
> Dual-boot was working fine until I went into to Mac OS's Disk Utility and
> went to the Boot section. After that, I think I clicked on either the
> hard drive or the Mac OS partition. "Uh-oh."
>
> I rebooted, and yaboot was nowhere to be seen; it just booted straight
> into Mac OS. I rebooted into Debian (by booting from CD), chrooted into
> my root partition, and then I ran ybin. "Oh, good."
>
> I rebooted, but yaboot was still nowhere to be seen. I booted off the
> Debian CD again, and chrooted again, and ran ybin again. No dice.
>
> I backed up my hda1 "Partition Map" by doing (dd if=/dev/hda1
> of=hda1-backup-gulp), and I've attached it as well. Then I deleted the Mac
> OS partition ("I can always just put the partition back later..."), and I
> rebooted. Open Firmware showed me yaboot, and yaboot guided me into
> Debian. (Hooray!) If I restore the hda1-backup-gulp backup (that is, if
> I restore the Mac partition), OpenFirmware ignores yaboot and goes
> straight into Mac OS.
>
> So I'm in Debian with no way to get to Mac OS. I know to some extent it's
> "luser error", since I probably clicked on something bad, but the
> documentation didn't say not to, and besides, I tried to use yaboot to dig
> me out and it couldn't. So, is there some way I can make OpenFirmware
> load yaboot even when /dev/hda5 exists again, so I can dual-boot once
> more?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Asheesh Laroia.
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Ethan Benson
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