[ydl-gen] How to have YDL and Leopard coexist

[Sterling Garwood]

ok ...
I am using a Mirrored Drive Door Powermac (dual g4).
all drives are internal.
The problem is that the default YDL partitioning (I used the default  
scheme in the installer) created partition types not recognized by  
Leopard (I think they are EXT3 ... need to check).
When Mac OSX 10.5.3 (Leopard) boots up it sees the non-Apple format  
partitions and says basically '...format, eject, or ignore'
I can click the ignore or eject button but I worry that one day my  
wife will boot up the system and click the 'format' button.

On Jun 12, 2008, at 9:41 AM, Derick Centeno wrote:

> Hi Sterling:
> There are problems with your description.  Which Powermac?  Are the  
> different operating systems on external or internal drives?  For  
> your information, as far as I understand it, ybin is designed to  
> distinguish and allow for choice from booting from internal hard  
> drives only.
>
> Given what you've reported you may instead be using external  
> drives.  You can avoid the problem by holding down the option key  
> which initiates open firmware.  Then you may choose which drive to  
> boot from, YDL is symbolized by the sitting penguin.  The downside  
> of this method is that you'll have to do this procedure every time.
>
> Another problem, although I do recall sometime back YDL being  
> capable of booting from an external drive -- I've not tried to do so  
> with YDL6.  So I do not know if YDL6 will boot from an external drive
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