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