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From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska•net>
To: Michael Schmitz <schmitz@opal•biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>
Cc: Guillaume Laures <guillaume.laures@noos•fr>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva•net>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: MacOS X and yaboot wars.
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 00:48:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000926004845.T1928@plato.local.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009261007560.513-100000@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>; from schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de on Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 10:10:49AM +0200

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On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 10:10:49AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> 
> Does ybin rely on the Apple_Bootstrap type? If not, just call it any way
> you like to make MacOS messing with it even more unlikely. 

ybin could not care less, ybin will install onto a regular file
happily ;-)  

what DOES care is OpenFirmware, which insists on it being Apple_Boot*
Apple_Boot is used by apple so macosx will do whatever it wants
whenever it wants, Apple_HFS is out since macos old will ruin it as we
have all seen.  Apple used to use Apple_Booter so i would avoid that too.  

i think the best solution is just reorder the partitions again after
installing OSX.  using Apple_Boot would probably just mean your
partition would be erased instead of moved which is far worse IMO.

> Caution: I've found the reorder option to work in very non-obvious ways
> (partitions could only be moved one way IIRC). I'll have to investigate
> that in more detail. 

it can be done, but yes i have not totally figured out the right
syntax.

ill see if i can get Clausen to add reorder support to parted if its
not already there.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-09-26  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20000921214002.N30638@plato.local.lan>
2000-09-22 16:04 ` MacOS X and yaboot wars Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-09-23  1:54   ` Ethan Benson
     [not found]     ` <39CFE49F.DB1E05EE@noos.fr>
2000-09-25 22:54       ` Ethan Benson
2000-09-26  8:10         ` Michael Schmitz
2000-09-26  8:48           ` Ethan Benson [this message]
2000-09-26 12:12             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found] <v04220800b5f21601b44d@[10.0.0.42]>
2000-09-23 10:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-09-23 20:23   ` Timothy A. Seufert
2000-09-23 20:41 Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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