Subject: Re: bootx vs. yaboot on new world macs
From: William Max Fredericksen (mouenblade01@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 21:31:53 MDT
Thanks for the info, I'll have to try again, might make life easier as a
result of what else I found out. I did some more digging, apart from a
conflict between Mac OS 9.1 and BootX 1.3.1 I believe it was, there still
seems to be no reason not to use it if you can (though anyone running a
G4/Digital Audio or better can't, 'cause they require OS 9.1 or better - the
G4/AGP ran on 8.6 default), although I'd like some clarifiacation on
"undesirable settings" as I'm not sure what you're referring to there. At
the time I was using it on the B&W G3, I was running OS 8.6 hence no
conflict.
thanks again
Bill Fredericksen
on 6/18/01 3:35 PM, "David C. Hacker, DVM" <dh55145@alltel.net> at
yellowdog-general-digest-help@lists.yellowdoglinux.com wrote:
BootX also alows the Mac OS to set some of the hardware to undesireable
settings before it boots Linux. If you put the install CD in and hit tab
at
the yaboot prompt you can type cd-linux root=/dev/hdaX or whatever your root
is. Then when you get into linux at the console type ybin -v and if you
have
the boot partition set up already it will copy all of the files there for
you
and next boot will give you a tri-boot menu. Linux Mac and CD Hope this
helps a little
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