On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:11:51PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote: > Hello, > I think some of you folks may run into this problem if you have > upgraded to MacOS 9.2.2 and have a slave drive with a bootstrap > HFS partition along with root and swap ext2/3 partitions on that drive. > It appears that starting with MacOS 9.2.2, the damn thing is deblessing > the bootstrap files so that yaboot no longer starts up. For example > on my machine, I find that > > boot-device ultra1:9,\\:tbxi > > no longer works after MacOS 9.2.2 has been booted and I am forced to > either run ybin again to rebless the bootstrap or use > > boot-device ultra1:9,yaboot > > Unfortunately the later isn't really a solution because it seems to > short-circuit yaboots use of the boot menus which I still want. Hopefully > BenH can modify yaboot so that it will provide the boot menus when > invoked as above. This is so annoying as I just got done reformatting > my drive last month to put back the MacOS drivers on my slave drive > since their absence caused MacOS X 10.1 to continually query if I wanted > to initialize the linux slave drive. The joys of triple booting. Ugh. > Jack >
If you make an Apple_Bootstrap partition as recommended in the yaboot install docs, MacOS will not get a chance to de-bless it, it's not mounted. Right? -- *--v------ Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 For PowerPC -----v----* | <http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks- | | (pause for breath) powerpc/current/doc/install.en.html> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
