Re: HFS Plus on Linux ?

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:30:50PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 09:49:16AM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 05:07:16AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 06:54:38AM -0500, Kevin van Haaren wrote:
> > > > >mounting it -o rw instead of -o ro is all thats required.
> > > > 
> > > > Is it a guaranteed thing?  I've been mounting a small HFS partition 
> > > 
> > > yes
> > > 
> > > > and copying my kernels to it for boot x for a year.  I've not had any 
> > > > problems.  I don't compile a whole lot of kernels so I'm not writing 
> > > > to it everyday, but it isn't unusual for me to spend a weekend 
> > > > dinking around with a kernel and copying 2-10 kernels to the 
> > > > partition during that time.
> > > 
> > > and its this flawed system configuration that has resulted in many
> > > unbootable systems, and why i won't support the utterly evil hack of
> > > mounting an hfs partition on /boot
> > > 
> > 
> > Actually, /boot needs to be a symlink to /hfs-boot/System Folder/Linux Kernels
> 
> thats even more evil and unsupported.
> 

Thank you.

I haven't actually done that, but it looks possible.

I do have a script that keeps a current kernel and a previous one for BootX.