Subject: Re: Open Firmware, "blessing" partitions & restarting
From: Gordon Neault (gordo-x@shaw.ca)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 23:31:39 MST
And never run Norton or Alsoft, etc. on the hfs boot partition, whether
mounted in MacOS or (as it should be) not.
On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 09:59 PM, Ben Stanley wrote:
> The yaboot documentation says that the boot partition should not ever be
> mounted, especially by OS X, becuase it 'un-blesses' it. ... 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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