Re: Problems when dual booting MacOS 9.1 and Debian Potato PPC
Hi,
Patrick Klee writes:
> Anywho, if someone could give me boost, I may try and fit NetBSD
> later on.
If you are going to boot NetBSD anyway, which is not very well
supported by ybin, you may as well give ybin the boot here and now. I
did that after the firmware upgrade on my Pismo broke the ofboot.b
script and have been happy ever since.
What I did is create a small HFS partition at the start of the hard
disk. Its type is set to Apple_Bootstrap so MacOS won't mess with it.
With 16 MB, it is just big enough to hold the boot loaders and a few
kernels. The boot loader I want to use by default, in my case yaboot,
has its HFS type set to tbxi, so it gets automatically started at boot
and proceeds to load the Linux kernel. In order to boot other OSes, I
created an environment variable for each boot command. For example, I
did `setenv macos=boot hd:10,\\:tbxi' for MacOS. If I want to boot
MacOS now, I manually drop the machine into OpenFirmware at startup
and type `macos eval'.
As I said, even though there is some manual interaction involved, I am
quite happy with this setup. Among other advantages, I can have an
XFS root without the need for an ext2 /boot partition. And with
security-mode set to command in Open Firmware, unattended booting into
Linux is possible, while booting into the big security hole named
MacOS 9 requires a password.
Well, this has gotten rather long, hope it helps a little.
Regards, Jens.
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