Subject: Re: Open Firmware, "blessing" partitions & restarting
From: Ben Stanley (bds02@uow.edu.au)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 20:59:40 MST
The yaboot documentation says that the boot partition should not ever be
mounted, especially by OS X, becuase it 'un-blesses' it.
You should boot Linux off the CD (see the engineer's notes at the bottom
of the Yellow Dog installation instruction page) and then re-run ybin to
fix this.
And, btw, I've had problems with the yaboot that comes with ydl 2.1. I
recently upgraded to the more recent one in the yellow dog updates
directory, and the problems went away. (One of my problems was with
ext3, but I don't know what caused the other problems.)
And as for mounting hfs partitions from Linux, I don't recommend that -
the kernel hfs implementation has suffered bit-rot. Use hfsutils instead.
Ben.
Eric D. wrote:
>Hello ya'll, I've run into a little bit of a problem here (that I'm about to
>see if booting into Open Firmware will fix). Somewhere in booting an OS X
>installer disk (to do a verify), booting Norton Systemworks CD & defragging
>the two Mac partitions I've lost the boot loader.
>
>One interesting side-effect of Norton Disk Doctoring the OS X partition was
>that OS X now sees the "boot" partition on its desktop. Can the "boot"
>partition be used to transfer files back-and-forth between OS X & Linux & is
>it a dangerous idea to do so? (I'll find out soon enough if it's easy to
>access boot on the Linux side (provided I get Linux back up and running)).
>
>L8r, Eric.
>
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