Re: unable to boot potato cd on ibook2

[erik@debill.org]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:59:29AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 01:09, erik@debill.org wrote:
> > So far the only complaints were the lack of a chance to tell yaboot to
> > also boot Mac OS X, 
> 
> This would be a good idea.  Can anyone think of a good way to implement
> it?  We could traverse the partition table and look for file systems
> that are Apple_HFS or whatever, but how can we tell whether they're
> MacOS or MacOS X?  And how can we tell which ones are bootable? (I don't
> have MacOS, so I can't try this.)

Yellow dog just asked.  "Do you have Mac OS installed?  What partition
number" and the same for Mac OS X.  I suspect that auto-detection will
be rather hard, since you can actually install OS 9 and OS X to the
same partition (and then the software "blesses" a boot folder so OF
knows which to boot).

I think asking the user isn't bad for a first cut.


> > and that tasksel didn't install a window manager
> > when I told it to install X (kind of annoying when it defaults to an X
> > windows boot via gdm :-)
> 
> That's bad.  We will be sure to fix that before release.  I think the
> appropriate people will be watching -testing, but I'll be sure to file a
> bug if not.
> 
> Did you select any other tasks in tasksel?

c/c++ development, desktop environment and maybe 1 or 2 more.  I'm not
especially familiar with tasksel - is there a way to query what tasks
you have installed?  Re-running it just shows the ones you /didn't/
choose.

I ran dselect afterward and added some individual packages (but didn't
turn any off).

Thanks for all the hard work.  I know that getting installers right is
a royal pain.


Erik