On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 11:46:12PM -0400, Nelson Abramson wrote: > > > Ethan recommends creating a 800K bootstrap partition. I haven't been > > able to find out how to do this. I have been using Drive Setup from my > > You create the partition, then make it type "Apple_BootROM" and then use the > ybin "mkofboot" on the partition. yay someone who likes ybin! ;-) actually i like Apple_Bootstrap but everything after the Boot part does not matter, i once created a Apple_Boot_OF_Really_Sucks and it worked just fine, but Apple_Boo will not. > Don't use DriveSetup to create your individual partitions. Just make one giant > partition that is the sum of all of the linux partitions you want, and make the > individual ones later w/ linux fdisk or pdisk or whatever... yes! > > You totally don't need boot floppies :) well you don't need *floppies* but you do need the root1440.bin *image* > > You are making this WAY more complicated than it needs to be. > All you need to do is download yaboot and the debian files... I would recomend > putting them on a zip (if you have one), or making a hfs exchange partition. If > you do that, yaboot could reside there, which would be okay for the installer basically anything that must be accessable to linux must be on HFS-not-plus format. do note that if you make your macos partition HFS+ you can boot yaboot from there and boot a kernel from there in an emergency situation, yaboot uses OF's methods to access HFS filesystems and thus supports HFS+. I however don't recommend trying to boot yaboot from a macos (or macos mountable) partition full time as its just far more trouble. > (you would later want to move it to a bootstrap partition so you could use ybin) definitly, ybin lets you think of the bootstrap partition just like an 800K bootblock with its own device file in /dev. this also makes it possible for OF to boot from it wtih default settings under most circumstances. the Apple_Boot* type is important though, if macos is allowed to mount this partition it will almost invariably remove the blessing making OF reject it as a bootable partition. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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