On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 12:40:51PM -0700, Grant Miller wrote: > > A strange problem on my powerbook appeared when I blew away my MacOS 9.0.4 > install and put MacOS 9.1 on it. > > I booted off of the 9.1 CD and formatted the partition that had OS 9.0.4 > installed on it (/dev/hda10). Then I installed MacOS 9.1. > > At some point after I erased the OS 9.0.4 partition, a disk called bootstrap > showed up on the MacOS desktop. This disk has never appeared before in > MacOS. The bootstrap disk is at /dev/hda9 is named Apple_Bootstrap and is > of type HFS. thats wrong, the TYPE must be Apple_Bootstrap not the name. > Once the bootstrap disk showed up in MacOS, lilo did not appear when booting. its ybin actually, and its because MacOS rendered it unbootable, that is why you must use a TYPE Apple_Bootstrap and not just the name. in mac-fdisk C != c when creating partitions. > I was able to boot off of the Debian CD and get into Linux and run ybin to > get lilo back, but whenever I booted into MacOS, lilo would get nuked. yup, fix your bootstrap partition to have type Apple_Bootstrap and macos wil be unable to mount the partition and ruin it anymore. > I looked at the partition table (or what mac-fdisk showed), and there was no > change in the partition names or types from before I did this upgrade and > after. please post this output. > Is there a way to get the Apple_Bootstrap partition to not be seen by MacOS > even though it is a HFS partition? yes set the type to Apple_Bootstrap. name != type. > Or does MacOS 9.1 do some "extra stuff" to blow away the bootstrap records? it shouldn't. MacOSX uses the same method when you install onto UFS. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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