Subject: Re: using pdisk live
From: Paul J. Lucas (pauljlucas@mac.com)
Date: Fri Jan 12 2001 - 12:22:08 MST
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Hollis R Blanchard wrote:
> This is not exactly correct. You need an HFS partition to boot from, but
> it doesn't have to be a dedicated bootstrap partition.
>
> For example, the YDL installation instructions tell you to install yaboot
> to the System Folder of your existing Mac OS partition.
I read somewhere that the MacOS (if I were to boot into MacOS
on that same partition) has the nasty habit of unblessing
everything but the System/Finder that will make it unable to
boot using yaboot. Is that true?
> Now if you want to use ybin (which is quite convenient) you will need a
> dedicated bootstrap partition.
And I thought using a separate partition was the solution to
that.
- Paul
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