Re: Dual booting OSX and Debian on G3 beige
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 04:45:38PM -0800, Thomas Powell wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:52:59AM +0000, Wayne Pascoe wrote:
> > Chris Tillman <tillman@azstarnet.com> writes:
> >
> > Partition 6 has never been the root partition. Partition 6 is my MacOS
> > HFS partition with OSX installed on it.
> >
> > > What's happening is what quik is warning you about when you run it. By
> > > default, quik finds the first bootable partition on a disk and tries
> > > to mount it as root, and find a kernel there, etc.
> >
>
> Can you use mac-fdisk to reorder the partition map to solve the problem?
>
> .....Question to the list as well as suggestion..........
>
That would probably work... quik looks sequentially through the map.
> (there might be something in the list archives regarding moving Apple_bootstrap type
> partitions)
That's not applicable for quik though.
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