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Re: booting problems



On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 07:50:13PM -0500, Pan wrote:
> I have a B&W G3 with debian, and I have 4 drives on it... I have debian
> and mac installed on the IDE master drive, and macos alone on the slave.
> 
> The problem is, when I boot on macos on the slave drive, I can't later
> reboot on debian, since it always goes back to the mac partition and it
> doesn't recognice the bootstrap partition (that's my guess)
> 
> So, if I boot on mac os on the same drive where I have debian, it works
> fine and I can get to debian, but if I change the bootup disk to a
> different one (the slave) everything breaks, and I have to reboot off the
> cd and re-generate the bootstrap.
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix this?

Have you created an Apple_Bootstrap partition and set up the dual-boot
options in yaboot?

www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/booting

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