YDL Boots, Mac OS 9 Does Not

[Jay Truesdale]

> Jay,     I'm sorry, but I can't find any problem with the layout of
> the 
> partition map per se--I brought it up side by side with mine and. . 
> .nothing. I just went thru a lot of this stuff when I recently did a 
> major reinstall (everything), that's why I was hoping I could help.
> But 
> my great limitation here is that I have never worked w a system that 
> dual booted YDL and OS9 (only YDL & OSX)--so maybe I'm missing 
> something. (For the same reason it wouldn't be helpful to put up my
> own 
> partition map--it lacks the small driver partitions [your part's
> #2-5] 
> required by OS9 but not OSX. But they're not bootable, so should not
> be 
> your problem.)
> 
> The only other thing I can think to check at the moment is your
> yaboot 
> config. I would think that since the ydl installer handled the 
> partitioning & installation of yaboot, it would have config'd yaboot 
> properly. But just in case, can you report the output of
> cat /etc/yaboot.conf

Thanks for your help so far.

---- Here is the yaboot.conf:

boot=/dev/hda6
device=/pci@80000000/mac-io@10/ide@20000/disk@0:
init-message="Welcome to Yellow Dog Linux!\nHit <TAB> for boot
options.\n\n"
partition=8
timeout=30
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
default=linux
                                                                       
        
image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4.22-2f
        label=linux
        root=/dev/hda8
        read-only
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-2f.img
                                                                       
        
macos=/dev/hda7
defaultos=linux
delay=10
enablecdboot
---------- end of yaboot.conf



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