More than 3 bootable partitions

[M. Rowen]

All of these partitions are on a single 60GB disk. The MacOS9 partition
in question is still there, I just don't get a choice from Yaboot to
boot from it because it appears limited to allowing only three
partitions.

-Mike 

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 21:56, Steven Gross wrote:
> How did you install without issues? Did you have to unplug your drives etc?
> WHen I tried to install using 3 drives (one for OSX one for OS9 and one for
> Linux (YDL 3.0), it casued a problem with my boot partiions and I have to go
> through lengths to resore them using a special pdisk from Yellowdog
> (Terrasoft), and I could never get yaboot to boot up at all...
> thanks
> 
> steve
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "M. Rowen" <mike@bcmr3.net>
> To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 10:31 PM
> Subject: More than 3 bootable partitions
> 
> 
> > This question may be more about Macs in general, but may relate to
> > Yellow Dog Linux. I partitioned my 800MHZ G4 iMac a few days ago. When I
> > did so, I created 2 MacOS9 partitons, 1 MacOSX partition, and left
> > unallocated space for Yellow Dog. I installed Yellow Dog without any
> > issues today. But when configuring Yaboot, it only allowed me to select
> > 1 MacOSX partition and 1 OS9 partition. Is there a way to get Yaboot to
> > recognize two MacOS9 Partitions? They both show up in the device list
> > when I configured Yaboot.
> >
> > -Mike Rowen
> >
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