Re: Dual booting OSX and Debian on G3 beige

2001-12-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 04:45:38PM -0800, Thomas Powell wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:52:59AM +, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > > Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Partition 6 has never been the root partition. Partition 6 is my MacOS > > HFS partition with OSX installed on it. >

Re: Dual booting OSX and Debian on G3 beige

2001-12-06 Thread Chris Tillman
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:52:59AM +, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What if I installed MacOSX behind Linux ? Would that help at all ? Yes, that's what's recommended for dealing with Mac OSX in the yaboot howto and install manuals. But you have to instal

Re: Dual booting OSX and Debian on G3 beige

2001-12-06 Thread Thomas Powell
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:52:59AM +, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Partition 6 has never been the root partition. Partition 6 is my MacOS > HFS partition with OSX installed on it. > > > What's happening is what quik is warning you about when you run it.

Re: Dual booting OSX and Debian on G3 beige

2001-12-06 Thread Wayne Pascoe
Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Running quik produces the following warning : > > Warning: prior partition (entry 6) is bootable > > Ah hah. You have run quik before, when partition 6 was the root > partition. Partition 6 has never been the root partition. Partition 6 is my MacOS

Re: Dual booting OSX and Debian on G3 beige

2001-12-05 Thread Chris Tillman
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:31:46AM +, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a repost of a saga that I am currently looking for help on > uk.comp.os.linux. Apologies to anyone who has already seen this. > > The machine in question is a beige G3 oldworld machine. I have OSX > installed and