Subject: Re: yaboot from mac? (newbe)
From: Eric D. (liriodendron@mac.com)
Date: Sat Mar 02 2002 - 12:13:38 MST
Hi Dovid, I had the exact same question and got the answer pasted below
(from a thread titled: Re: A few (lot?) queries from a neophyte). The, of
course, assumes you are using a "New World" CPU.
L8r, Eric.
on 28/2/02 17:43, dovid at dovid@mac.com wrote:
> my drive is partitioned with several mac os and one yd linux.
>
> i selected a mac os partition when booting from yaboot.
> mac os startup disk control panel doesn't recognize the yaboot
> partition. once i'm done with mac, how can i boot back into yaboot?
on 28/2/02 9:08, Jonathan Singer at jsinger@genome.wi.mit.edu wrote:
>> (6) If I set a Mac OS partition as a startup disk I lose the ability to boot
>> the Linux partition. How can I reset the Linux parition as a startup
>> partition (with yaboot... don't quite understand how that works but I
>> presume it's the boot loader).
>
> I have this too. (It has to do with "blessing" of partitions.) My fix is to
> boot into Open Firmware (cmd-opt-O-F) and do a 'boot hd:x,yaboot' where x is
> your root partition number. (Or is the boot partition number? I forget.) Run
> ybin as root once you've logged in.
>
> Is there a better method? The real answer is to create separate OS 9 and OS X
> partitions and use yaboot to pick one or the other. For space reasons, I don't
> want to do that.
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