Dual boot Yellow Dog and OSX

[Raistlin1022]

Good morning - I'm working on an iMac 266 and attempting to dual boot OSX.1 with YDL3.0. I successfully installed OSX with no issues, booted successfully, then walked through the install of YDL3. During the install I (believe I) selected the option to be dual booting the two. Regardless, when I boot the system my only option is YDL (it does boot successfully).

In YDL I can see the OSX partitions, so they still exist. The /etc/yaboot.conf does not contain an entry for OSX.

What I'm wondering at this point is how the yaboot.conf file should look. What entries for OSX should exist and which of the many defined partitions should be designated?

Can someone post a copy of their file? Or offer suggestions?

Thanks

Damon Garn
Technical Instructor
MCSE, MCT, CCNA, Linux+, Network+, Security+

 

[venkman]

I've done this successfully on a powerbook G4. I'm not sure if it works differently on the older macs (isn't there a difference between old world and new world or something?). Unfortunately, I don't have the powerbook I did it on in front of me. You should try to do a man yaboot.conf to get a list of the options. you should need to add a line like the following to get it to work:
macosx=/dev/hda12

I'm not sure exactly how to go about finding which partition number to use. Hopefully, you already know.
have you already taken a look here:

http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/yaboot-howto.shtml/ch6.en.shtml#s6.4

I'll try to remember to take a look at my yaboot.conf later tonight and post it here.

-Venkman