modified version of ybin

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Thu Jan 4 01:52:35 EST 2007


On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 23:06 -0500, Sanders, Rob M. wrote:
> Gents,
>   I've attached a modified version of ybin.  My Apple G5 is set up with a Panther (10.3) partition, a Tiger (10.4) partition, and multiple versions of linux 
> (ydl4.0.91, ydl4.1, YHPC).  I wanted to be able to boot into any of these from yaboot
> without needing to change the macosx pointer from Panther to Tiger and back.
>   I started with the version of ybin that shipped with YDL4.1 and copied the macosx
> portions to appropriately tweaked Panther and Tiger tags.  Works on my box with
> out any problems.
>   I've forwarded this off to the gang at TerraSoft Solutions, and have mentioned
> it on the YellowDog board (www.yellowdog-board.com I believe, but the link is 
> available at www.yellowdoglinux.com under support).
>   I've called this beastie ybin_mod, just so I have a pristine copy of ybin floating
> around 'just-in-case'.

Please rather than send the whole thing please attach a unified diff
(diff -u) against current git HEAD.

Paul




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