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Has anyone successfully gotten OS9, OSX and LinuxPPC to coexist?  I'm
using yaboot on a PowerBook Pismo.  Just got my copy of OSX today.  I'm
questioning the phrase prominently displayed on the front of the box,
"The world's most advanced operating system."  Thems some big words.
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I have a triple boot of MacOS 9.1/MacOS X/Debian PPC(sid)
on my G4. You will need to create an additional boot
partition and use Ybin 1.0 (which comes with example
template yaboot.conf scripts for a triple boot). You
will need to have the MacOS 9.1 and MacOS X on separation
partitions though. It appears that if you have them both
on the same partition that Apple uses some sort of blessing
for the System Folder to switch which is booted. Yaboot
claims to have a hack to work around this from the MacOS
X beta but I didn't have any luck getting that to work
on my machine. In the end I just repartitioned and now
everything triple boots fine.

Quote:> Has anyone successfully gotten OS9, OSX and LinuxPPC to coexist?  I'm
> using yaboot on a PowerBook Pismo.  Just got my copy of OSX today.  I'm
> questioning the phrase prominently displayed on the front of the box,
> "The world's most advanced operating system."  Thems some big words.

Quote:> Has anyone successfully gotten OS9, OSX and LinuxPPC to coexist?  I'm
> using yaboot on a PowerBook Pismo.

Yes - also on a Pismo (separate partitions for 9 and X). Bear in mind,
though, that the OSX installer subdivides the partition you create for
it. Makes sense that it would of course, but it doesn't tell you it's
doing it. So the partition numbers in your yaboot.conf need to take
account of that. Safest course I think is to do the OSX install first,
on the first partition after your bootstrap, then pdisk/fdisk will show
you what the installer has done to the partition numbering, and you can
proceed from there.

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Tim

could you post your partition table? I am interested in this triple-boot
setup, too. Did you install OS X on ufs partitions?

laurens

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Partition table (sorry about the formatting):

/dev/rdisk0  map block size=512
   #:                 type name                 length   base     ( size
)









64.0M)

8.0G)

2.1G)

(300.0M)

8.0G)

(128.0M)

nb partition 10 is OSX, 11 OS9 and 12 an HFS exchange partition. 10 and
11 are HFS+, not HFS, despite  what pdisk says.

I tried installing on UFS first time around but ran into problems
booting Classic, so reinstalled on HFS+. However there is now an Apple
tech note (TIL 106277) on how to fix that.

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Tim