[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: boot OS X, cd & o firmware fine - NO LINUX



On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 05:18:38PM -0500, Dick Repasky wrote:
> 
> Thanks, Ethan, it works now, although I go through the yaboot menu twice 
> to boot.  (Select linux and then select it again.) Now, partiton 2 is 

thats normal, yaboot can't boot OSes other then linux, thats done by a
first stage menu.

> Apple_Bootstrap and partion 3 is the orginal Apple_Boot partition.  You 
> didn't say that I could delete it, and your reply indicated that OS X does 
> use it. So, I carved off some free space from the first free-space 
> partition, set it up as an Apple_bootstrap partition and re-ordered it to 
> be the second partion.  I assume that I just have to live with the 
> double-menu OS X writes over Apple_boot.

that should be fine.

Apple_Boot is normally only used when you install osx on UFS.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

Attachment: pgp00006.pgp
Description: PGP signature