On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Grant Miller wrote: > At some point after I erased the OS 9.0.4 partition, a disk called > bootstrap showed up on the MacOS desktop. This disk has never > appeared before in MacOS. The bootstrap disk is at /dev/hda9 is named > Apple_Bootstrap and is of type HFS. > > Once the bootstrap disk showed up in MacOS, lilo did not appear when > booting.
Minor note: the newworld bootloader is called yaboot, not lilo. > Is there a way to get the Apple_Bootstrap partition to not be seen by > MacOS even though it is a HFS partition? Yes. The type (not the name) of the partition should be Apple_Bootstrap rather than Apple_HFS. This will prevent MacOS from mounting the partition and unblessing the boot script. Using mac-fdisk to change the partition type should solve your problem. If for some reason this doesn't work, you could also try running ybin with the --protect option, or adding "protect" to /etc/yaboot.conf. This will make the yaboot files read-only, and hopefully will prevent MacOS from unblessing them.
