On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 09:58 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > I recently tried installing Fedora 9 on an iBook that I need to boot > both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X on. I also have some other partitioning > constraints, so I ended up with 6 partitions before I started the > Fedora 9 install. > > Fedora 9 happily created lots more partitions, but then Mac OS 9 (and > X, IIRC) refused to boot. Couldn't recognize the format of the disk. > (Might have helped if I had got a 120 G HD instead of a 160 G HD?) > > Also, on a separate iteration, when I tried to force the yaboot > partition to 1MB, that also apparently made the partition map > unacceptable to Mac OS 9. > > I had to wipe the disks with the Mac OS 9 formatter and start again. > (Lost a day or so of my time, but no data.) Since I thought I had > time, I tried an install of just Fedora, but the current partitioning > software wouldn't create the partition for yaboot any smaller than > 16MB, IIRC, and then it wouldn't install yaboot in anything bigger > than 1MB. > > I am currently successfully multi-booting Mac OS 9 & X (Jaguar) and > openBSD, but openBSD is not using yaboot. I give the four-finger > salute on startup and type "boot hd:,ofwboot /bsd" at the open > firmware prompt. That doesn't really bother me, even though I have to > remember that the keyboard map is US and doesn't match the Japanese > keyboard. :-/ > > openBSD seems to take a little more nursing than I currently have > time for, and I am primarily interested in getting the Gimp and > openoffice.org running. Well, probably some of the edutainment stuff, > as well. > > In about two weeks, one of the partitions will be freed, so I should > have three partitions to give Fedora 9, and I am thinking of trying > again. But I won't have the day or so necessary to re-build the Mac > OS 9/X sides of things if the Fedora partitioning software makes the > map unreadable to Mac OS 9 again. So, I am wondering a couple of things: > > One, Is anyone is currently successfully multi-booting Mac OS 9, Mac > OS X, and Fedora 9 on any system, especially one with a boot HD > larger than 120G? > > Two, would it be possible to boot with openBSD's approach, invoking > an openfirmware script on the Mac OS 9 boot disk? (I haven't been > able, yet, to untangle the web of what happened when yaboot became > usable.) ---- I haven't done multi-boot Mac's but I have done a bunch of different Mac setups. I'm not really a fan of multi-boot on any hardware choice. Anyway...I'm not sure why you would want or if you can have separate boot partitions for Mac OS 9 and OS-X and wonder why you would want to do that because if you create an HFS partition for both OS-9 (Classic) and OS-X you would normally keep them on the same setup and use the control panel 'Startup Disk' to choose which would boot. Use the Disk Utilities option on Mac OS-X install to create the partition for OS-X/Classic and leave appropriate 'unpartitioned' space for BSD and/or Linux. I would expect that if you install Fedora last, it will handle the installation of yaboot/yaboot.conf for you and give you all of the startup options. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
