Re: yaboot vs MacOS 9.2.2

[Laurent de Segur <ldesegur@mac.com>]

Jack,

I just updated to 9.2.2 for the heck of it (never boot into it anymore) 
and I don't see the problem that you just reported. My partition is of 
type Apple_Boostrap as the ya* doc recommends, and, as Chris mentioned, 
it doesn't mount under Mac OS.

BTW, Ethan is the new maintainer for the Yaboot package.

Regards,

LdS

On Thursday, December 6, 2001, at 08:09 PM, Chris Tillman wrote:

> 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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