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Re: yaboot, ybin, etc



On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 05:46:57PM +0200, Olaf Grewe wrote:
> Actually I thought mkofboot -v whould have done that. So how can I do this
> myself?

no mkofboot will never mess with the partition table, that would be
far too dangerous.  

Dan is going to get ybin 0.20 into potato r1, it includes a MUCH
better bootscript (which is autogenerated) it provides an actual menu
instead of the spacebar/option key stuff. 

> Thanks
>     Olaf
> 
> David Brown wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:33:25AM +0200, Olaf Grewe wrote:
> >
> > > I used it to set up Pismo before 2.2 was released. It mentions a
> > > boot-script by benh which allows you to boot up Debian and MacOS
> > > alternatively by holding the space key. Personally I liked it far more
> > > than the option-key-way that ybin provides. Apart from that, I couldn't
> > > get the that way to work for me. Each time I boot up MacOS it unblesses
> > > the bootstrap partition, so upon holding option I just get the
> > > MacOS-button after rebooting.
> >
> > I believe if you change the type of the bootstrap partition to "Apple
> > Bootstrap" then MacOS won't try to mount it, and won't unbless it.
> >
> > Dave Brown
> 
> 
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