Subject: Re: yaboot.conf details for Triple Boot? (resolved)
From: Ted Goranson (tedg@infi.net)
Date: Sun Jul 22 2001 - 12:58:11 MDT
Thanks to Perry and Tim (Tim's message below).
Answer: DO use /hda numbers; DO insert brokenosx
Tripleboot from yaboot is now fixed!
Best, Ted
>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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