en/computer/yabootWEBlog -- Wouter's Eclectic Bloghttps://grep.be/blog//en/computer/yaboot/WEBlog -- Wouter's Eclectic Blogikiwiki2014-03-01T14:02:37ZHow new is your Mac?https://grep.be/blog//en/computer/yaboot/comment_82/Lu (lu@gusilu.net)2014-03-01T13:42:06Z2006-01-27T23:58:03Z
Mmmm.... this is a long shot, but if your Mac was bought in 2005 check to make sure you're not affected my the memory slots problem. I was, and one of the (multiple) simptoms was that yaboot started behaving very strangely, throwing errors about certain memory addresses and so on ..... until the computer simply refused to boot up, and eventually the motherboard made the "sorry, no RAM" beeping noise.
Possible yaboot solutionhttps://grep.be/blog//en/computer/yaboot/comment_83/Asheesh Laroia (asheesh@asheesh.org)2014-03-01T13:42:06Z2006-01-28T08:47:16Z
Since booting from CD seems to repair it, I wonder if simply pressing and holding Option in OpenFirmware would fix it. That brings up the list of devices from which one can boot. Maybe that'll reset what gets reset by your booting from CD.
Re: How new is your Mac?https://grep.be/blog//en/computer/yaboot/comment_84/Wouter Verhelst2014-03-01T13:42:06Z2006-01-28T10:50:01Z
<p>It's from 2004. Also, it's worked perfectly for a year and a half now, so I doubt it'd be some design error.</p>
<p>Then again, it's probably not impossible...</p>
Re: Possible yaboot solutionhttps://grep.be/blog//en/computer/yaboot/comment_85/wouter2014-03-01T14:02:37Z2006-01-28T11:00:28Z
No, that's not it; it loads the first stage of yaboot, but errors out on the second stage. If it was an OpenFirmware problem, it wouldn't even load the first stage.