Re: Multi-boot advice.

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 07:57:13AM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote:

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Iain Sandoe wrote:

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I think I read that I must put the Linux boot partition before the
MacOS - X one?

If you are using yaboot with an OF-bootable partition (e.g. you are using
ybin to set up a bootstrap partition), then placing that partition before
MacOS will allow you to boot Linux by default without changing any open
firmware settings.

if you use a multiboot script and you place the Apple_Bootstrap
partition first you will always get the boot choice without altering
OF settings.

Other than that, partition order shouldn't matter.

Speaking of yaboot, I have a question. Can yaboot boot MacOS, or can I
make it exit back to OF without rebooting?

well strictly speaking, no.  yaboot cannot boot anything else, and
once its loaded OpenFirmware is pretty much destroyed.  you can
however use a magicboot script to give you the choice to boot linux or
macos, this scriptloads before yaboot and thus can boot macos.  

I'd like to just have my machine always load yaboot, and then use the
yaboot prompt to choose my OS. But once I'm in yaboot, Linux seems to be
my only option. Is this true? If so, can it be changed?

yes use a magicboot script.  see the ybin docs.

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Ethan Benson
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