From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 17:54:44 -0800 From: Ethan Benson To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: MacOS X and yaboot wars. Message-ID: <20000922175444.P30638@plato.local.lan> References: <20000921214002.N30638@plato.local.lan> <19340817093546.32417@mailhost.mipsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LwbuP8dfxhLLLUfV" In-Reply-To: <19340817093546.32417@mailhost.mipsys.com>; from bh40@calva.net on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 06:04:02PM +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: --LwbuP8dfxhLLLUfV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 06:04:02PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >=20 > Their installer does something weird, indeed. It tends to randomly make > another partition of the target disk "vanish". The partition (typically, > the HFS "exchange" partition people keep around) does not appear any more > in the MacOS 9 Finder nor in the file selection dialogs. It still mounts > in Linux and MacOS X. another thing i thought of, does OSX still use a bootstrap partition of its own? (it must if you choose UFS instead of HFS+) perhaps its reordering the partition table to make its partition first instead of ours? this can be changed back in mac-fisk/pdisk with the `r' command. then again it could just be doing the same inspect and debless crap macos is notorious for, a rerun of ybin will fix that. (if the BSD layer remains sufficiently intact in OSX final i may see about getting ybin working from the OSX side, but that depends on whether i can get access to OSX or not) > Apparently, the problem seem to be related to the installer setting the > "invisible" bit of the toplevel (root) directory entry of the HFS volume. > The partition is actually mounted, but invisible. I "fixed" mine using > Norton Disk Editor (Norton Utilities), but there might be other ways. hmount /dev/foo hattrib -i : humount /dev/foo will fix that from the linux side. though linux ignores that bit. that is odd and disconcerting that its tampering with other partitions like that, i hope its a bug that will be removed in the next beta rather then intentional. =20 as for the invisible bit on the root, macos still mounts the disk, but since the root directory is invisable it does not show it anywhere. i used to do this to people's floppies as a joke ;-) --=20 Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ --LwbuP8dfxhLLLUfV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature --LwbuP8dfxhLLLUfV-- ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/