[SOLVED] latest panther update breaks yaboot?

F4lC0N · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Posts: 20

I just got a message pop up today saying there are new updates for panther... being 58megs in 1 file. I updated this and once rebooted panther no longer boots. From what i can tell once i have selected MacOSX from yaboot it doesnt load osx ie the round progress meter with the bars no longer apears. and it turns off.

Its been working perfectly untill I applied this update that just came out today

Pylon · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 1:22 am Post subject:

I have also problem after I tried to apply this update (it stopped as the disk ran out of space). I can still start Panther, but only a few applications. It seems that something messed up the HFS+ filesystem, as the Disk Helper App from CD tells errors every time. It seems I have to reinstall Panther on my system...

But that Mac OS X overwrites your boot-sector is an old and know issue. We had that several times before. You have to start from CD and reinstall yaboot

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F4lC0N · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Posts: 20

I re ran

ybin -v and it did its thing but that didnt seem to help :/

it does the same thing it did when i 1st tried to set up yaboot and had the osx part misconfigured. kind of like it cant find osx to boot off ..

all i get after yaboot is a grey back ground with an apple logo then 5seconds later it turns off ..

thanks for replying btw

very apreshiated

choong · n00b Joined: 19 Jul 2003 Posts: 21 Location: London

i have a stranger problem. my yaboot disappeared completely... when i boot i no longer get any boot options at all. it just goes straight into panther (incidentally, panther is working with no problems). i'll get hold of the 2004 cd and try reinstally yaboot and take it from there.

i was told that i might have to reset my open firmware. anyone have any ideas out there?

andrew.

F4lC0N · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Posts: 20

strange thing happend .. it just started working again ..

oh well

lol

sorry about ur problem dude

i cant help with that one but yeah probly how ud fix it is re installing grub to the boot partition

ernstp · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:11 am Post subject:

No problems here. Haven't run ybin for a few months.
Running 10.3.3.

Edweirdo · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 7:37 pm Post subject:

I don't know if this is related, but I installed OS 10.2 in a partition, then OS 10.3 in a different partition. Then I put Gentoo in the 3rd partition. I created the bootstrap partition and reordered my partitions to make it 2. Then when I ran mkofboot it said everything worked fine. However, when I boot the system it never brings me to that menu, it just boots OS X (whichever one was selected with startup disk). It works fine if I boot off the CD and specify the parameters myself.
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jaspal kallar · Apprentice Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 194 Location: Sweden

choong to reset PRAM I held down (all four together)

Edweirdo · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 6:37 pm Post subject:

jaspal, that worked great, thanks!
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