On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:46:48AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > For yaboot? Why would that be required? yaboot works fine for me, with a > bootstrap partition I cut off the HFS exchange partition rather at the > end of the disk ...
it will work, but what happens if your OpenFirmware settings get reset? macos boots, not yaboot, which means you have to go into OpenFirmware yourself and change the boot-device variable manually. this is not something most people enjoy doing (nor know how to do). so if i tell them to create it first then resetting OpenFirmware gaurentees that yaboot gets booted, without teaching users arcane OpenFirmware incantations. current versions of ybin make it simple to add MacOS entries to the boot menu, by having the bootstrap partition first you gaurentee you always have the OS choice, otherwise Macos takes over and takes that choice away. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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