Re: getting pismo to boot by itself "smoke test"

[Michel Dänzer <daenzerm@student.ethz.ch>]

Michael Schmitz wrote:
> 
> > > For yaboot? Why would that be required? yaboot works fine for me, with a
> > > bootstrap partition I cut off the HFS exchange partition rather at the
> > > end of the disk ...
> >
> > it will work, but what happens if your OpenFirmware settings get
> > reset?  macos boots, not yaboot, which means you have to go into
> > OpenFirmware yourself and change the boot-device variable manually.
> 
> OK, if that's the whole reason ... It did seem like the bootstrap
> partition absolutely has to be the first, and that might scare people who
> already partitioned their disk, leaving empty space _after_ the MacOS
> partition.

Do I get right that you are talking about the physical position? AFAIK only
the logical partition number is important.

If that was clear, please ignore this post :)


Michel


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