From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 21:41:45 -0800 From: Ethan Benson To: Matt Brubeck Cc: Iain Sandoe , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Multi-boot advice. Message-ID: <20000706214145.R7162@plato.local.lan> References: <200007052323.AAA07099@hyperion.valhalla.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="iUdyFHenu1vPh/Ml" In-Reply-To: ; from mbrubeck@hmc.edu on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 07:57:13AM -0700 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: --iUdyFHenu1vPh/Ml Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 07:57:13AM -0700, Matt Brubeck wrote: >=20 > On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Iain Sandoe wrote: >=20 > > I think I read that I must put the Linux boot partition before the > > MacOS - X one? >=20 > If you are using yaboot with an OF-bootable partition (e.g. you are using > ybin to set up a bootstrap partition), then placing that partition before > MacOS will allow you to boot Linux by default without changing any open > firmware settings. if you use a multiboot script and you place the Apple_Bootstrap partition first you will always get the boot choice without altering OF settings. > Other than that, partition order shouldn't matter. >=20 > Speaking of yaboot, I have a question. Can yaboot boot MacOS, or can I > make it exit back to OF without rebooting? well strictly speaking, no. yaboot cannot boot anything else, and once its loaded OpenFirmware is pretty much destroyed. you can however use a magicboot script to give you the choice to boot linux or macos, this scriptloads before yaboot and thus can boot macos. =20 > I'd like to just have my machine always load yaboot, and then use the > yaboot prompt to choose my OS. But once I'm in yaboot, Linux seems to be > my only option. Is this true? If so, can it be changed? yes use a magicboot script. see the ybin docs. >=20 >=20 --=20 Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ --iUdyFHenu1vPh/Ml Content-Type: application/pgp-signature --iUdyFHenu1vPh/Ml-- ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/