Re: Call for info: slave drives bootable from OpenFirmware (OldWorl d)
On 17 Apr 2001 16:29:13 -0700, David N. Welton wrote:
> Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
>
> > no 800K not 32MB. 32MB is a rediculous and absurd waste of space.
> > out of 800K less then 100 are actually used for yaboot/ofboot. (but
> > HFS requires a minimum of 800K)
>
> If you happen to have any, ahem, other operating systems, that uses,
> say, HFS+, which linux doesn't handle well right now (afaik), you can
> use this partition not only as a bootstrap, but also as a place to
> exchange files between Linux, and the other OS.
Watch out what you say, or the Boot-Cop Ethan will get on your back
quickly. Such partitions should only hold yaboot and yaboot.conf (and
the eventual OF boot-script iirc).
Such partition should never be mounted under MacOS, or modified by hand.
Use ybin to modify it. Don't put any kernels there. (the Apple_Bootstrap
partition is not visible from MacOS anyway). And to those who will tell
me that you can't modify it if you can't boot Linux, I will answer that
they should have a Boot CD handy, or even a second machine they can use
as a Netboot Server (well, how did you install the system in the first
place ?)
The only time I regretted that was when I had my potato install CD
stolen and I rm-rf'ed (conscioulsy) my /dev to use devfs.
Cheers
--
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net
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