On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 12:28:13PM -0600, pohl wrote: > > Ethan wrote: > > > > not unfortunately, yaboot is more robust and reliable. just create a > > 800K bootstrap partition at the front of your disk to hold it after > > the install, and use my ybin utilites to manage it. just as easy as > > lilo. (in mac-fdisk use the C command and create the bootstrap > > partition as type Apple_Bootstrap) > > Will it work to place this partition after an HFS or HFS+ MacOS > partition? I haven't yet found a way to keep the MacOS 9 partitioning > tool to from destroying my poor little Apple_Bootstrap. Perhaps I > should just consider that tool to be hostile and avoid it? (Apple's > disk tool, not yaboot :-)
no, if macos is before the bootstrap partition you have to fsck with OF, I cannot believe apple added hostility to there drive setup program, Apple_Bootstrap is something we stole^H^H^H^H^Hborrowed from OSX-server, that is how it bootstraps... if that is the case i suggest using drive setup to just get the driver installed (or use an older one) and then use mac-fdisk to create all your other partitions, including the MacOS one. use the same C command you use for Apple_Bootstrap and use type Apple_HFS for the macos partition. if drive setup destroys bootstrap partitions it will very likely destroy linux partitions too... oh well, we have to deal with these `seek and destroy' problems on win95/98/NT guess we can add OS9 to the mix as well... -- Ethan Benson
