[PPC/OSX] How do I get Yaboot back?

Colin Watson cjwatson at canonical.com
Tue Oct 5 19:56:04 UTC 2004


On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 03:43:51PM -0400, Brett Kirksey wrote:
> I used the OS X system preference "Startup Disk" to select an external
> Firewire startup disk while I was doing maintenance. I've switched
> back to my normal OS X drive, but now when I start the computer, it
> boots straight into OS X.
> 
> If I hold down the option key during startup, it will show both my OS
> X drive and my Ubuntu drive, and I can select either one. But it won't
> give me the Yaboot menu if I just start normally. How can I get Yaboot
> back on startup?

Try running 'ybin' from a root terminal after booting into Ubuntu.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]




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