Re: yaboot vs MacOS 9.2.2
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:11:51PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Hello,
> I think some of you folks may run into this problem if you have
> upgraded to MacOS 9.2.2 and have a slave drive with a bootstrap
> HFS partition along with root and swap ext2/3 partitions on that drive.
> It appears that starting with MacOS 9.2.2, the damn thing is deblessing
> the bootstrap files so that yaboot no longer starts up. For example
> on my machine, I find that
>
> boot-device ultra1:9,\\:tbxi
>
> no longer works after MacOS 9.2.2 has been booted and I am forced to
> either run ybin again to rebless the bootstrap or use
>
> boot-device ultra1:9,yaboot
>
> Unfortunately the later isn't really a solution because it seems to
> short-circuit yaboots use of the boot menus which I still want. Hopefully
> BenH can modify yaboot so that it will provide the boot menus when
> invoked as above. This is so annoying as I just got done reformatting
> my drive last month to put back the MacOS drivers on my slave drive
> since their absence caused MacOS X 10.1 to continually query if I wanted
> to initialize the linux slave drive. The joys of triple booting. Ugh.
> Jack
>
If you make an Apple_Bootstrap partition as recommended in the yaboot
install docs, MacOS will not get a chance to de-bless it, it's not
mounted. Right?
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