On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:20:26AM -0700, Grant Miller wrote: > > I don't think there is a bootable flag setting on Macs. What you do need is
wrong, there is a concept of a bootable bit in mac partition tables, there is no userland utility that gives you much control of it, but /sbin/quik knows how to set it when installing its first stage bootblock. > a small (32MB) partition with the type and name set to Apple_Bootstrap. no 800K not 32MB. 32MB is a rediculous and absurd waste of space. out of 800K less then 100 are actually used for yaboot/ofboot. (but HFS requires a minimum of 800K) do yourself a favor and give that 32MB to your swap partition instead of just throwing it away. > That is what yaboot/ofboot is installed into. yes but this is only for newworld macs. this method does not work on oldworlds. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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