Re: Call for info: slave drives bootable from OpenFirmware (OldWorl d)
Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> > 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.
> that is a very poor idea. if you allow MacOS to mount the bootstrap
> partition it **WILL** debless it rendering your system unbootable.
MacOS X doesn't seem to mess with it.
> you should use a dedicated small type Apple_Bootstrap partition. if
> you know what your doing and like booting manually at the
> OpenFirmware prompt every time fine. if not you better follow my
> instructions as you will get no sympathy from me otherwise.
Probably a good idea in any case:-)
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