Subject: Re: Boot issues between Mac OS 9.1 / OS X and YDL 2.0
From: Eric Woods (woodse@alum.rpi.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 09:50:37 MDT
At 10:52 AM 6/29/2001, Richard G Brock wrote:
>on 29.06.2001 10:08, Eric Woods at woodse@alum.rpi.edu wrote:
>
> > At 09:50 AM 6/29/2001, Richard G Brock wrote:
> >> ....
> >> So, I booted from the YDL CD, deleted the existing linux partitions, and
> >> re-installed. Same thing happened. Booting between 9.1 and YDL is fine.
> >> Once I boot from OS X yaboot prompting seems to disappear.
> >>
> >> So, the questions are: Is OS X doing something in Openfirmware that is
> >> messing with yaboot? Has anyone else see this?
> >
> > Richard - The program "Make Disks Visible", which Alsoft makes available,
> > takes care of this kind of issue with HFS disks that become invisible after
> > installing/launching OS X. It *might* work for yaboot. Run it under 9.1
> > and see if it works. Get it from
> > here: http://www.alsoft.com/AskAl/download.html, with more info available
> > under just /AskAl and following the link for Make Disks Visible - Ask Al.
> >
> > Please report back on whether it works or not if you try it. Thanks!
> >
> > - Eric
> >
>
>Eric. When you say it makes HFS disks visible again I assume you also mean
>the same for HFS+ disks? HFS+ is the format I use on the other partitions,
>ie, the Mac OS partitions.
No, the problem that arises which this tool was designed to overcome is
that HFS partitions with system folders (actually, /boot folders, from what
it says) may become invisible after installing Mac OS X (at least the beta
-- might have been fixed in the final). Since something *similar* is
happening to the yaboot drive, it's worth a shot to see if the utility can
do anything for the situation. I'd give it a 50/50 chance of working.
- Eric
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