On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 07:20:04PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 06:43:01PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > MacOS was installed on the first possible partition (mostly /dev/sda5) with > > linux on sda >= 6. > > > > I'm going to initially try quik with a MacOS clean setup, but I'm wondering > > about these machines I've already setup. > > > > Since OF looks through the partitions for a bootable one, will it skip the > > HFS partition and continue looking to find the Linux partition?
i am not sure on this, i don't know if MacOS sets the partition bootable in such a way that OF will notice or not. my friends quik setup is 100% macos free, no drivers, no HFS. > If this setup could work, people could install MacOS just for when the NVRAM > is wiped. no need, use the debian miboot boot floppy to recover from that. > Otherwise, you could have a portable external drive that has > MacOS on it and use that to boot and start linux. The boot floppies are > pretty limited... I hate the way auto-complete doesn't work on them... they are limited but are good enough to run nvsetenv. if you want complettion either build a miboot boot floppy that roots to your real root partition or just mount your root filesystem on /target and chroot /target /bin/bash (you probably need to mount /proc too) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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