On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 09:09:10PM -0500, pohl wrote: > > I managed to write yaboot to the Apple_Bootstrap partition so > that it boots linux off of the hard drive. It's starting to > make sense to me now. > > Unfortunately, I cannot boot into MacOS unless I command-option-o-f > into open firmware and explicitly > boot hd:8,\\:tbxi
> This is despite the fact that I deliberately copied the template > from /usr/doc/yaboot/examples/menu_ofboot.b to /boot/ofboot.b, > as per the docs, and edited the X's out of the boot lines: > [snip] this is ybin 0.16, 0.16 sucks ;-) install 0.21, you can get a deb from http://them.org/~drow/debian be aware that this deb will probably change alot in the next couple days. when you install the new deb setup a yaboot.conf like this: device=hd: delay=5 timeout=50 magicboot=/boot/ofboot.b.sh ## this will change in the next deb version boot=/dev/hda5 install=/boot/yaboot macos=/dev/hda8 image=/vmlinux label=linux root=/dev/hda7 partition=7 read-only then run mkofboot -v reboot and you will have a dual boot menu with an option for macos and an option for Debian. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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