Subject: Re: Mol and yaboot
From: Philip Good (phil@redplanetx.com)
Date: Thu Dec 07 2000 - 15:26:05 MST
You can make your yaboot boot partition read-write from linux AFTER you have
started MOL. I do this when I want to use it as a swap area between MacOS and
Linux.
Phil
David Wagner wrote:
> on 12/7/00 3:16 PM, Russell Kerr at russell.kerr@cellular-roaming.com wrote:
>
> > Hi all, has anybody got yaboot and mol working together, with yaboot you
> > have to create a separate partition (yada yada) you all know where I am
> > going with this!!!
> >
>
> I don't see what the problem is. Yaboot is for starting linux. You start
> mol after linux, and typically, X, is running. If you already have a boot
> partition for yaboot, and partitions for Mac OS, Linux, etc., then you are
> fine. Just install and configure mol, and startmol.
>
> In /etc/molrc you specify which MacOS partitions are readable and/or
> writable in mol. You do not need to make your yaboot boot partition
> readable or writable in mol. In fact if it is mounted in linux, it cannot
> be writable in mol--although it can be readable if for some reason, you want
> it to be.
>
> David Wagner
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