Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 10:26  pm, Chris Tillman wrote:

> 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?
This transcribed rather than cut and pasted and I've not included the 
comment lines

yaboot.conf:

boot=/dev/hda2 (where Apple_Bootstrap resides)
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
brokenosx (added as a suggested fix but makes no difference)
macosx=hd:10 (where MacOS9.2 and MacOSX reside)
delay=5
timeout=50
root=/dev/hda11
device=hd:
image=vmlinux
partition=11
label=Linux
read-only

/etc/fstab looks like this:

/dev/hda11	/		ext2       etc. below
/dev/hda12	none	swap
proc			/proc		proc
/dev/fd0		/floppy	auto
/dev/cdrom	/cdrom	iso9660
/dev/hda13	/usr		ext2
/dev/hda14	/var		ext2
/dev/hda15	/tmp		ext2
/dev/hda16	/home	ext2	

Any guidance is much appreciated ;-)

Regards

Clive