Subject: Re: yaboot.conf details for Triple Boot?
From: Timothy A. Seufert (tas@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Jul 22 2001 - 02:42:36 MDT
On Saturday, July 21, 2001, at 01:21 AM, Ted Goranson wrote:
>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."
Ted,
With a number is definitely correct.
Try adding a line containing nothing but the word "brokenosx" to
yaboot.conf. (It doesn't matter very much where it is, right after
the "macosx=..." line should be fine.) It will probably get you
working.
This setting forces ybin, when creating the ofboot.b boot menu
script, to emit a hardcoded path to the OS X file that needs to get
loaded. Ordinarily it would put in instructions to scan for it
instead. The hardcoded path is usually necessary if OS X is
installed on a HFS+ partition.
(I disagree with Ethan Benson, the author of ybin, that this option
should be called "brokenosx", but what the heck, he's writing it so
he gets to decide what it should be called.)
Tim Seufert
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