Enable multiple OSX boot option and intellegent labels?

[Jackoverfull]

Il giorno 03/feb/2012, alle ore 16.33, Jim Harris ha scritto:
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> The current yaboot will do that on its own.  It has no problem booting Linux, OSX,  OS9 and the CD-ROM.  The issue is when you try to boot more than one instance of the *SAME* OS, such as Linux, OSX #1, and OSX #2.  (or OS9 #1 and OS9 #2, or Linux #1 and Linux #2, etc.)
> Right. I originally wrote that while i was trying to install Linux on an HFS+ partition while OS 9 was installed on the same partition (worked well, there are a couple of articles on my website. Only in italian, tough…). Anyway, editing that file should let you boot as many different OSes you want.
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> >>Jim
> That’s what *I* thought!  And I could give them whatever names I wanted, so long as the menu and the boot-stanzas have the same name. Right?
> <<Jim

Right.
 
>  Seriously now, there has to be a better way to do this than mucking around in the boot code. . . .  That’s about as awful a hack as hand-editing the MS-DOS partition table on a PC’s hard drive.  (And yes, I have done that, and yes, it is an awful hack.) 
> No doubt about it: it's an "hack" and doesn't cope well with yaboot automations, however I can't see other ways to reach the same result right now.
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> >>Jim
> In the current instant, you are correct.  What I would like to do is see if I can actually ‘improve’ the code itself to avoid such an awful hack.
> <<Jim
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If you can, I'm sure your improvements will be appreciated.

> Especially as anytime there’s an update to yaboot, your carefully crafted script goes down the toilet, so you have to go and re-hack it again.
> Do backups…
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> >>Jim
> Doh!  Still, when I say ‘re-hack’ I also meant that I’d have to go digging around in the boot partition again.
> <<Jim
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Should be a thing of an instant.
At that point, anyway, you might find easier not to update yaboot at all, at least until you really need to.

> (and somehow re-bless that darn partition/file/etc.)  Oh, and another thing.  How did you keep your edit of that file from de-blessing *your* boot partition?
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> Never happened.
> However, you can boot a file from Open Firmware even if the partition is not blessed. I believe my mac was set up to boot directly the boot script, regardless of the status of the partition. On one of my machines I didn't even use a dedicated boot partition, had OS X on one and Linux and OS 9 on the other, with the boot script on one of them.
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> >>Jim
> Which file do you point the boot at?  The script itself?  I thought the boot had to point to some kind of ‘thx’ (or whatever) file.
> <<Jim
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Yes, the script itself. Wich was originally called ofboot.b (thanks Nello, could not remember the name…) but can have actually any name.

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> >>Jim
> I could, but I am real suspicious of that kind of thing.  Invariably there is something left out, or something not set the way it should be, and if something goes wrong I will always be second-guessing the installation itself, even if it is perfect.  This way there is no mistake.
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Well, if it's less an hassle to just format everything that's probably the best way to do it, right?

> Thanks for all the tips!  They *ARE* appreciated
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> Jim (JR)
You're welcome…And thanks for any future contribution to the code…
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