Subject: Re: yaboot.conf details for Triple Boot?
From: perry phillips (pm_perry@pacbell.net)
Date: Sat Jul 21 2001 - 00:36:29 MDT
Hi Ted,
Are you planning to boot to the individual partitions from Open
Firmware? It doesn't sound like your goal, but I think that would
work. (But Mac OS X will blow away the standard linux bootloader as
far as my experience goes--but maybe if it is in its own partition,
that won't happen?-- but I've had no luck with OF reset when the
bootloader gets knocked out.)
So you could, from OF, "boot hd:11,\\yaboot" for linux or "boot
hd:10,\\tbxi" for Mac OS X, etc. I think that will work. If you
succeed in getting your yaboot config file to do this, please tell
the list, I , for one, don't know how this could be done with that
file. But it sounds like you made some progress?
Why do I have the feeling that more info about this (and similar
problems) should be posted as part of some long YDL FAQ and/or HOWTO?
People on this list have come up with all sorts of clever solutions
to difficult technical problems and I don't get the sense that the
information is being assembled in a searchable database.
(to get the OF prompt: option +command+ "o" + "f" at restart).
regards,
perry
>Friends--
>
>I am having trouble getting straight how I need to edit my
>yaboot.conf file for a triple boot. My hda assignments are:
>
>hda9 for OS 9.1
>hda10 for OS X
>hda11 for linux boot
>hda13 for linux
>
>I've seen conflicting advice on whether the new macosx line should
>be followed by a number or not. The rough form of the interesting
>part looks like this:
>
>boot=/dev/hda11
>macos=/dev/hda9
>macosx=/dev/hda10
>
>I've tried it with and without numbers (followed by a ybin -). The
>result is the same: holding down "X" boots into 9.1, same as "M."
>
>Today is the twelfth day my paid Terrasoft support question has been
>waiting unanswered. They all must be in NYC.
>
>Best, Ted
>
>--
>_____________
>Ted Goranson
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>757/426-6704
>tedg@sirius-beta.com
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