Subject: Re: OS X and YDL on same drive
From: Ted Goranson (tedg@sirius-beta.com)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2001 - 12:49:48 MDT
>I have had one heck of a time trying to install YDL and OS X on the
>same drive. It seems this is not possible.
>I have the drive set in two partitions and had OS X installed on one
>and when I tried to install YDL, it was a no go.
>So I reformatted and put the drive in two partitions again only this
>time installing YDL first. Success...Now I go to install OS X on the
>second partition. The first time into the installer I got an error
>that said could not install please retry, so I did. The second time
>the installation went without a hitch. But when I went to restart
>and boot back into YDL, I could only get so far as to the yaboot
>session and when I was prompted with "boot: ", I hit enter and it
>said:
>"WARNING: Image could not be found" . So it seems that the OS X
>installation erased Linux so OS X could install correctly. Anybody
>tried doing this or know if this is possible. What's going on?
>thanks.
It's doable. The simplest approach (the only one I know with
confidence) is to install OSX first, then YDL. Option-boot then gives
you the choice you need. You have to edit yaboot.conf (check the
archives) to get yaboot to work right.
Best, Ted
-- _____________ Ted Goranson Fusecap and Sirius-Beta, Virginia Beach USA 757/426-6704 tedg@sirius-beta.com Symmetry Conference: http://www.isis-s.unsw.edu.au
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