On 03/28/11 15:59, dieter...@engineer.com wrote:
From what I know, one or the other can only be as
the first entry and it then has to be set from the forth prompt.
So, you will need two disks to boot , saya: OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
Linux,
and MacOSX or a combination of these.
On PPC boxes with OpenFirmware 3.x, you actually need to set the
active
partition if you want to boot Linux and/or freebsd from the forth
prompt if
both are on the same disk.
Can these PPC boxes boot from GPT disks? "active partition" sounds
MBRish.
Perhaps they can use the "protective MBR" trick?
No, they can only boot from APM (Apple Partition Map) disks, which don't
have a concept of active partition. The current boot1 on PPC is
hard-coded to boot from the first UFS partition on the disk, which could
be changed, certainly, but is almost totally unrelated to this discussion.
-Nathan
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