Subject: Re: Boot issues between Mac OS 9.1 / OS X and YDL 2.0
From: Richard G Brock (r.brock@snet.net)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 08:52:44 MDT
on 29.06.2001 10:08, Eric Woods at woodse@alum.rpi.edu wrote:
> At 09:50 AM 6/29/2001, Richard G Brock wrote:
>> ....
>> So, I booted from the YDL CD, deleted the existing linux partitions, and
>> re-installed. Same thing happened. Booting between 9.1 and YDL is fine.
>> Once I boot from OS X yaboot prompting seems to disappear.
>>
>> So, the questions are: Is OS X doing something in Openfirmware that is
>> messing with yaboot? Has anyone else see this?
>
> Richard - The program "Make Disks Visible", which Alsoft makes available,
> takes care of this kind of issue with HFS disks that become invisible after
> installing/launching OS X. It *might* work for yaboot. Run it under 9.1
> and see if it works. Get it from
> here: http://www.alsoft.com/AskAl/download.html, with more info available
> under just /AskAl and following the link for Make Disks Visible - Ask Al.
>
> Please report back on whether it works or not if you try it. Thanks!
>
> - Eric
>
Eric. When you say it makes HFS disks visible again I assume you also mean
the same for HFS+ disks? HFS+ is the format I use on the other partitions,
ie, the Mac OS partitions.
I'll take a look at the product you've noted above.
Thanks much for the quick response.
richard
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