OSX boot disk
Samuel Rydh
mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:59:46 +0100
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:52:12PM +1300, Francois Prowse wrote:
> Hi all - I've taken my OSX boot disk from my B&W Powermac and placed it in
> my Linux box (Pegasos PPC, attached to secondary IDE bus)
>
> Disk appears at /dev/hdc
>
> However can't seem to get MOL to boot this drive (can boot from a cdrom
> just fine) with the following error message
Do you have support for the macintosh partition format
in the kernel?
> Autoswitching to console
>
> CD /dev/cdrom CD-ROM <read-only> ------
>
>
> My molrc.osx file contains this line for boot
>
> blkdev: /dev/hdc -rw -boot
>
You could try adding -whole. This will export the complete
disk (mac partition support is thus not required).
/Samuel