On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 04:33:07PM +1000, Mark Hepburn wrote: > Thanks to everyone's help I now have testing installed on my ibook2. > > In the process though I have exceeded the 15-partition limit (partion-map + > drivers + bootstrap + swap + root + linux/macos share + os9 + osx + 2 extras > added when you install osx on ufs). Sure enough, osx (on partition 16) is > inaccessable from yaboot, although it still seems to boot (albeit slowly) from > the graphical menu. yaboot doesn't boot OSX. my bootscript does. my bootscript has no such limits on partition numbers. if it works from the slow OF multibooter it will work from my menu as well. (they both execute the exact same command). > I prefer yaboot (if nothing else, it's a _lot_ quicker); to elminate some > partitions I was thinking of merging the 9 and x parititions in one hfs+ and > just using the software restore disks to get both os in the same partition. this is problematic. > My question: is it still possible to specify in yaboot.conf macos= and macosx= > being the same partition, or is it neccessary to boot into one, change the > startup disk and reboot? no this is impossible. both MacOS and MacOSX require a blessed system directory, but there can only be one blessed directory on a filesystem, so one OS MUST be made unbootable to boot the other, that means no boot menus. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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