On Monday 31 October 2005 23:11, Mark Knecht wrote: > Thanks for the info. So if yaboot is on the internal drive already > then yaboot can get to an external drive as easily as internal, right? > I'm thinking is sort of like > > /dev/sda is the internal drive with it's OS x partitions. Yaboot is there. > > /dev/sdb is my external 1394 drive. Tell yaboot to go there and it > finds a Gentoo kernel to boot? Or is it more complicated? Does yaboot > want to find an Apple kernel to jump to?
I've got yaboot set to ask me if I want to boot OSX or Linux (linux being the default), if I hit x for OSX it will pass control over to the OSX partition specified and it will boot, otherwise I get the option on what linux kernel to boot. > An individual on the gentoo-ppc channel pointed me here: > > http://hansmi.ch/articles/boot-linux-from-firewire > > He suggested all of this stuff is possible. Seems pretty cool. Indeedy. Although he doesn't say how to get it to run yaboot instead of just booting the first bootable partition it finds (i.e. the OSX partition on the internal drive). I'd put the bootstrap bootblock before the OSX partition on the internal drive. If OSX is on HFS+, you will need to turn off journalling before you can move/resize it from linux tools. Some simple command line program to run from in OSX, but I can't remember what it was :) -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
