Installation on older iMac

[Norberto Quintanar]

hmmm, I've always done the dual boot with the Mac OS on the first
partition.  I've noticed that YDL works better when the boot
partition is hda7
--- Ron McCy <ronmccy@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Target  =  5 year old iMac with OS8.5, 96Mb & 20Gig hard drive.
> YD 3.0
> 
> The problem....
> 
> After installation, YD 3 yaboot doesn't see the hfs partition for
> 8.5 nor 
> start Linux.  The system hangs, though it will boot from CD if I
> ask it to.
> 
> What I did....
> 
> I followed the instruction addendum - partitioned the h.d. into 2,
> 15gig for 
> YD and 5 for Mac8.5 leaving the first partion free.  OS 8.5 was
> reloaded 
> from the Apple CDROM and the sytem rebooted with the YD CD.  Linux
> seems to 
> load pretty easilly.....the installer finds free space for the swap
> and root 
> (/) partitions, leaving 4 ( I think ) odd looking leading
> partitions named 
> hda1...hda4 and Mac8.5 shows up at hda7.
> 
> The installer uses the text interface ( no problem ), asks for
> preferences 
> and packages, and after 40 minutes or so congratulates me on a
> proper 
> installation.  The reboot is another story!!!!  Yellow Dog, if
> installed by 
> itself runs perfectly on this computer and only balks when asked to
> share 
> the hard drive with Mac Os 8.5.   What gives??????????
> 
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