From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 00:48:46 -0800 From: Ethan Benson To: Michael Schmitz Cc: Guillaume Laures , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: MacOS X and yaboot wars. Message-ID: <20000926004845.T1928@plato.local.lan> References: <20000925145411.G1928@plato.local.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yypaS3FvPkEUiGyo" In-Reply-To: ; from schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de on Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 10:10:49AM +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: --yypaS3FvPkEUiGyo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 10:10:49AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: >=20 > Does ybin rely on the Apple_Bootstrap type? If not, just call it any way > you like to make MacOS messing with it even more unlikely.=20 ybin could not care less, ybin will install onto a regular file happily ;-) =20 what DOES care is OpenFirmware, which insists on it being Apple_Boot* Apple_Boot is used by apple so macosx will do whatever it wants whenever it wants, Apple_HFS is out since macos old will ruin it as we have all seen. Apple used to use Apple_Booter so i would avoid that too. = =20 i think the best solution is just reorder the partitions again after installing OSX. using Apple_Boot would probably just mean your partition would be erased instead of moved which is far worse IMO. > Caution: I've found the reorder option to work in very non-obvious ways > (partitions could only be moved one way IIRC). I'll have to investigate > that in more detail.=20 it can be done, but yes i have not totally figured out the right syntax. ill see if i can get Clausen to add reorder support to parted if its not already there. --=20 Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ --yypaS3FvPkEUiGyo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature --yypaS3FvPkEUiGyo-- ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/