> 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.
Actually, I've been having a real problem setting the default boot device back properly after installing the recent MacOS X public beta. I had followed your yaboot instructions and had everything working great. But since installing MacOS X, the only way I can boot to Linux is to hold down <Option> and click on the appropriate icon (even <space> doesn't work). I tried doing the "setenv boot-device" thing in OpenFirmware, and it didn't seem to help. Does MacOS X do something particularly nasty? Has anyone tried this yet? (Incidentally, this is on a Pismo, and I installed MacOS X on a UFS partition) Mike Fleming
