Subject: Re: Mol and yaboot
From: Olivier MARTI (marti@lsce.saclay.cea.fr)
Date: Fri Dec 08 2000 - 00:32:40 MST
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Derrik Pates wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Philip Good wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> That's right, because MoL does a start-time check to see if any
> filesystems it intends to mount are already so. You run the risk of
> damaging the filesystem by having it mounted read-write in both OSes at
> once, so I'd be careful if I were you.
>
I've corrupt an HFS partition by accessing it with XHFS when MOL
is running. I guess the table of the partition is not correctly updated
when two systems access it at the same time.
Olivier
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