After several installs using various schemes, I managed to install my YDL 4.0.1 onto a partitioned drive by isolating it from others: unplugging all the other hard drives. Better yet, if I had dedicated the ENTIRE drive to YDL, then I can reboot.
However, once I booted in OS X (Jaguar partition of the same drive; or via Panther from an external drive), the G4 Mac fails to identify the Linux disk and I'm unable to boot from that disk/partition again. That's true with all the extraneous disks removed, leaving the sole disk with the Jaguar/Linux partitions. It appears that the YDL resets the file type from either HFS+ or UFS into its own file type during installation. So the OS X can NOT see/recognize the YDL disk.
The scenario: YDL allows me to boot from either partition (OS X/Linux) via its character prompt. But once I've booted from the OS X, the box is a dedicated OS X, not the hybrid OS X/Linux.
Question: How can I boot in either OS X or Linux? That is, how can I make OS X 'see' the Linux partition (logical disk) and select it as the boot disk?
It appears that I must either have a 100% Linux or 100% Mac OS X. I want to be able to have both OSes available from the same machine.
Also, how can I exchange files between the environments? The installation appears to replace the HFS+ for its own structure.
Regards,
Ric.
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