Antw: MacOS overrules yaboot on double harddisk G4
Am Montag, 16. Oktober 2000 schrieb Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>:
>On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 08:27:19PM +0200, Georg Koss wrote:
>> Hello all!
>> Please help!
>> I have problem with booting debian on two HD G4. After
>installing Debian with a "mkofboot ybin-0.26 yaboot 0.8 setup"
>of my debian-HD with rebooting to Debian immediatly works fine.
>> But when I boot in MacOS on hda9 I loose the debian- button
>from the OF-Menue afterwards.
>
>you didn't use the Apple_Bootstrap partition type did you?
>
>> My fstab looks like
>> hda9 HFS (Mac)
>> hdb9 bootstrap
>> hdb10 swap
>> hdb11 /
>> hdb12 /home
>> hdb13 /var
>> hdb14 HFS (Mac)
>>
>> After unpacking the ybin-0.26 archive I did
>> cd ybin-0.26
>> cat ybin > /usr/sbin/ybin
>> cp ofpath /usr/sbin
>>
>> mkofboot -b /dev/hdb9 -i ./yaboot -m ./ofboot --root /dev/hdb11 \
>> --partition 11 --device `ofpath /dev/hdb`
>
>your really better off writing a real /etc/yaboot.conf and losing the
>--root --partition and --device options. those override
>/etc/yaboot.conf and make a very basic one.
>
>> BTW, on hda9 (Mac-HD with 10GB) runs Norton Antivirus for
>Mac. It is allowed to scan Desktop and Mac-Systemfolder. Can
>that be a problem for the bootstrap?
>
>if your bootstrap partition is not type Apple_Bootstrap then macos
>will always destroy it. you *MUST* use mac-fdisk to create the
>bootstrap partition. apple's tool won't do it right.
>
>run:
>
>mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda
>
>if your bootstrap partition has type "Apple_HFS" you need to delete it
>and recreate it so the type is Apple_Bootstrap, then MacOS will no
>longer destroy it.
>
>--
>Ethan Benson
>http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
>
You are completely right, it works ;-))
Thanks again!
--
Mit besten Grüssen
Georg Koss; g.koss@eunet.at
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