Mounting HFS+ partitions in YDL

[Robert E. Terry]

Early work with Troy at YDL had me address this problem with
a new version of "pdisk" that would fix an install problem which
made all of the Mac OS invisible (for a while).  With a partition map
that looks like:

Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hdb'
 #:                type name               length   base      ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map Apple                  63 @ 1
 2:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh              54 @ 64
 3:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh              74 @ 118
 4:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh              54 @ 192
 5:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh              74 @ 246
 6:      Apple_FWDriver Macintosh             200 @ 320
 7:  Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh             512 @ 520
 8:       Apple_Patches Patch Partition       512 @ 1032
 9:     Apple_Bootstrap untitled            20481 @ 1544      ( 10.0M)
10:           Apple_HFS "Scratch IV"     51281642 @ 74196482  ( 24.5G)
11:           Apple_HFS "OS X"           30823342 @ 125478124 ( 14.7G)
12:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap               524289 @ 22025     (256.0M)
13:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled         73650168 @ 546314    ( 35.1G)
14:          Apple_Free Extra                  22 @ 156301466

and a yaboot.conf file that looks like:

boot=/dev/hdb9
device=/pci@f2000000/pci-bridge@d/mac-io@7/ata-4@1f000/disk@1:
init-message="Welcome to Yellow Dog Linux!\nHit <TAB> for boot options.\n\n"
partition=13
timeout=30
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
default=linux

image=/boot/vmlinux-2.4.20-8d
    label=linux
    root=/dev/hdb13
    read-only
    initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8d.img
macos=/dev/hda9
macosx=/dev/hdb11
defaultos=macos
delay=10
enablecdboot

I have no trouble mounting Mac partitions on YDL, except for the minor
annoyance that only "Root" can actually read them!  A normal user can
look but not enter the directory.

Cheers,

Bob Terry

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