[Ti] OT Lost in Unix - need a way out

Chris Olson chris.olson at astcomm.net
Mon Oct 4 10:55:38 PDT 2004


On Oct 4, 2004, at 11:00 AM, Tim Heitzman wrote:

> I reset my startup to "single user" using Cocktail. (Stop with the 
> finger pointing and sarcasm, I know it was a stupid move.)  Now I need 
> some help to get back to Mac OSX. Is there a keyboard restart combo 
> that will startup from a CD? Or is there some code I can type that 
> will get me back?

Use the "bless" utility at the command line so OpenFirmware knows where 
to find BootX to start OS X.  Something like:

bless -folder "/Volumes/Mac OS X/System/Library/CoreServices"
   -bootinfo "/Volumes/Mac OS X/usr/standalone/ppc/bootx.bootinfo"

should do the trick.
--
Chris



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