yaboot Mac OS Startupt Woes
Mike Lloyd
yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri, 11 Oct 2002 17:09:11 -0500
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I cannot get yaboot to start MacOS on a Rev B iMac with a 40 Gb hard =
drive and 192Mb memory. It simply hangs on start up after printing its =
selection message. I have tried Mandrake and used their partition scheme =
with the Mac OS partition first with similar result. I have tried the =
YDL approach and placed the Mac partition in the back. The current =
partition is extended Mac OS (~27Gb) and is labelled hd:7. I have a =
standard partition (~1Gb) labelled hd:8. All were created in drive setup =
with 10Gb free space physically before the Mac OS partitions. The free =
space was partitioned by the YDL installer into three partitions (boot, =
10Mb; swap, 256Mb; root, ~10Gb). YDL starts up fine. I have also =
successfully booted the Mac OS parition using MOL, but it runs too slow. =
I have tried to boot the Mac OS partition directly using Open Firmware =
and it hangs. I pointed pointed the Mac loader to hd:8 and at least got =
an error message. How do get this dual boot system to work?
Thanks,
Mike
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I cannot get yaboot to start MacOS on a =
Rev B iMac=20
with a 40 Gb hard drive and 192Mb memory. It simply hangs on start up =
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printing its selection message. I have tried Mandrake and used their =
partition=20
scheme with the Mac OS partition first with similar result. I have =
tried=20
the YDL approach and placed the Mac partition in the back. The current =
partition=20
is extended Mac OS (~27Gb) and is labelled hd:7. I have a standard=20
partition (~1Gb) labelled hd:8. All were created in drive setup =
with 10Gb=20
free space physically before the Mac OS partitions. The free space was=20
partitioned by the YDL installer into three partitions (boot, 10Mb; =
swap, 256Mb;=20
root, ~10Gb). YDL starts up fine. I have also successfully booted the =
Mac OS=20
parition using MOL, but it runs too slow. I have tried to boot the Mac =
OS=20
partition directly using Open Firmware and it hangs. I pointed pointed =
the Mac=20
loader to hd:8 and at least got an error message. How do get this dual =
boot=20
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
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