Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 03:13:39PM -0800, vinai wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Clive Menzies wrote:
>
> > Thanks for this. It raises a couple of questions:
> > 1. In the yaboot HOWTO it recommends re-ordering the Apple_bootstrap
> > partition to 2 - yours is on 9 and presumably works OK. Why the
> > recommendation?
>
> I believe Ethan recommended to do it this way because if you ever did a
> PRAM reset, OF would start looking for bootable partitions. Putting the
> Apple_bootstrap partition at #2 means it would be the first bootable
> partition OF encountered, and would boot your machine from it.
Right. I just added this to the HOWTO, it's FAQ.
> > 2. You say that the MacOS partition needs to be installed physically
> > after Linux - would reordering the partitions have the same effect? I
> > guess it would involve editing yaboot.conf and /etc/fstab files. Is
> > this to be recommended?
OpenFirmware pays attention to logical placement, not physical placement.
Did you already post your yaboot.conf and /etc/fstab?
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