Re: iMac won't boot from AppleCD (solved)

[Gunther Furtado <gunzera@pop.com.br>]

Brad Boyer escreveu:

> On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 07:25:42PM -0200, Gunther Furtado wrote:
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> > Well, everything is working as expected now. I can boot OS9 on HD and CD 
> > from yaboot startup menu. I could make it OK  only when I put the 
> > partition with OS9 immediately after the extra starting partitions (that 
> > would make it /dev/hda6) and before the bootstrap partition. I thought 
> > it was suppose to be the other way around.
> >    
>
> Having the bootstrap partition first is strongly suggested, not actually
> required. The issue is that if you reset the boot settings in PRAM, it
> will try to boot from the first bootable partition it finds. If you
> put the bootstrap partition first, then Linux would be the default even
> if you drain the battery or otherwise lose the settings in firmware.
>
> 	Brad Boyer
> 	flar@allandria.com
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Just to make extra sure: the bootstrap partition must be just after 
those initial partitions OS9 need (map and drivers partitions) and 
before OS9 partition?

thanks

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Gunther Furtado
Curitiba - PR - Brasil