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On Monday 31 October 2005 23:11, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Thanks for the info. So if yaboot is on the internal drive already |
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> then yaboot can get to an external drive as easily as internal, right? |
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> I'm thinking is sort of like |
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> /dev/sda is the internal drive with it's OS x partitions. Yaboot is there. |
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> /dev/sdb is my external 1394 drive. Tell yaboot to go there and it |
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> finds a Gentoo kernel to boot? Or is it more complicated? Does yaboot |
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> want to find an Apple kernel to jump to? |
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I've got yaboot set to ask me if I want to boot OSX or Linux (linux being the |
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default), if I hit x for OSX it will pass control over to the OSX partition |
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specified and it will boot, otherwise I get the option on what linux kernel |
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to boot. |
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> An individual on the gentoo-ppc channel pointed me here: |
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> http://hansmi.ch/articles/boot-linux-from-firewire |
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> He suggested all of this stuff is possible. Seems pretty cool. |
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Indeedy. Although he doesn't say how to get it to run yaboot instead of just |
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booting the first bootable partition it finds (i.e. the OSX partition on the |
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internal drive). I'd put the bootstrap bootblock before the OSX partition on |
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the internal drive. |
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If OSX is on HFS+, you will need to turn off journalling before you can |
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move/resize it from linux tools. Some simple command line program to run from |
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in OSX, but I can't remember what it was :) |
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