Re: MacOS X and yaboot wars.

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:49:51PM +0000, Guillaume Laures wrote:

Yes it does.
Another weird thing is that it mounts the bootstrap partition.
But it doesn't unbless anything. And triple-boot works perfectly.
I just had to mess around with partition # (and btw I seem to have 3 free
partition disappear).

you should be able to reorder this so your bootstrap partition is first.

[snip]

It's a 27G disk...
May be I'll change "Apple_Bootstrap" to "Apple_Boot" ?

i wouldn't then MOSX will think that its it owns this partition and
who know what it will do to it then.  if its Apple_Bootstrap its less
likely apple will destroy it randomly since OSX does not know what it
is.

i very much doubt they reorder the partition table at every boot so
using the `r' command in mac-fdisk should allow you to reorder the
table so Apple_Bootstrap is first.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

quoted

It's a 27G disk...
May be I'll change "Apple_Bootstrap" to "Apple_Boot" ?

i wouldn't then MOSX will think that its it owns this partition and
who know what it will do to it then.  if its Apple_Bootstrap its less
likely apple will destroy it randomly since OSX does not know what it
is.

Does ybin rely on the Apple_Bootstrap type? If not, just call it any way
you like to make MacOS messing with it even more unlikely.

i very much doubt they reorder the partition table at every boot so
using the `r' command in mac-fdisk should allow you to reorder the
table so Apple_Bootstrap is first.

Caution: I've found the reorder option to work in very non-obvious ways
(partitions could only be moved one way IIRC). I'll have to investigate
that in more detail.

	Michael


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