On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 10:34:06PM -0700, Michael K. Fleming wrote: > > 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).
yes MacOSX is pulling a Microsoft, it reorders the partitions around and moves your bootstrap partition last, the only thing you can do is use mac-fdisk to put it back where it belongs: before all mac partitions. > I tried doing the "setenv boot-device" thing in OpenFirmware, and it > didn't seem to help. try using ybin 0.23 or 0.26, you can get this out of potato-proposed-updates. this version of ybin will set the boot-device variable for you. note you may have to change the value of boot= in /etc/yaboot.conf since macosx moved it. (again i reccommend reordering things to put your bootstrap partition back where it belongs.) > Does MacOS X do something particularly nasty? Has anyone tried this yet? yup see above. > (Incidentally, this is on a Pismo, and I installed MacOS X on a UFS > partition) in this case when you move your bootstrap partiton back and use ybin's new `macosx=' config option you need to use the MacOSX bootstrap partition as the device. not the macosx root partition. you can find this out via mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda if you could send the output of the mac-fdisk command that would help. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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