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.)
Joel Rees
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