On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:17:32PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes: > > > 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. MacOS != MacOSX. you are correct that MacOSX will not debless things. all versions of old style (7.*, 8.*, 9.*) MacOS do though. one thing that MacOSX *does* do is force the permissions on all files to be 0777, so if you have users any one of them can fsck up your linux bootloader. > > 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:-) it is. especially if you want to password protect yaboot, with a Apple_Bootstrap partition it won't be mounted in OSX or MacOS allowing users to find/remove your yaboot password. [0] [0] yaboot now has password protection, i will post another message on this later. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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