does Yaboot really need first partition?

[Christoph Bohle <bohle@math.TU-Berlin.DE>]

hello,

do i really have to put the bootstrap partition before the first mac-os
partition?

i followed the "famous" instruction
  http://www.xiph.org/~jack/ibook/instnotes.html
and have a bootstrap partition after my mac-os partitions. it works for
booting via open firmware (boot hd:11,\\yaboot). but it does not work
automatically like it should. 

i would prefer not to do all the mac-os installation again. so, is it
possible to live with a bootstrap partition after the mac-os partition?
is it (or will it be) possible to make such a bootstrap partition work
normally?

christoph