Fedora 4 test 1 PPC left G5 unbootable

[Paul Nasrat]

On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 17:42 -0800, Chris Leech wrote:
> I attempted to install 3.90 on a single CPU G5 from DVD, which once I
> got the install image to boot and anaconda running seemed to go just
> fine.  Unfortunately something seems to have gone wrong with the
> yaboot setup, and what I'm really worried about now is I can't get
> back into Mac OSX.
> 
> I added a second SATA drive, and installed Fedora there.  After
> installation nothing happened on reboot.  From the OF shell I can find
> yaboot and boot into Fedora (X isn't working, there were some other
> errors I haven't looked into yet) but I can't get OSX running.  

Can you attach your yaboot.conf and the partition layout of the drives -
eg for sda and sdb:

parted /dev/sda print
parted /dev/sdb print


> I can
> start BootX (the apple BootX, not the old world Linux bootloader) but
> it doesn't seem to find the OS.  From Linux I can see the first drive,
> but if I boot an OSX install CD it doesn't give me an option to
> install to that drive and Disk Utility doesn't show any partitions
> 
> Any ideas on what went wrong and how I might attempt to fix it?

The added details should help me diagnose what is going on.

Paul