Triple boot old world mac

ryker · Guru Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 412 Location: Portage, IN

I have an old beige G3 266 with a 40G ide drive with 3 partitions. mac osx.2 server on one 4G partition, mac osx.3 on another 4G partition, and the remaining just waiting for Gentoo. I had mac os 8.5 on it and I used bootx to boot into the Gentoo 2004.3 ppc disc, but can I use BootX in OSX? I had to use xpostfacto to install osx.3 on it since only x.2 is officially supported. I'm afraid to just throw BootX on it becuase I read that xpostfacto uses a modified version of bootx to install osx.
Any suggestions on how to get Gentoo on this box?
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SnEptUne · l33t Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 656

ryker · Guru Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 412 Location: Portage, IN

This is an old world mac. That's why I was asking. I wish I could use Yaboot.
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lostdave · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:30 pm Post subject:

I'd be trying it with a spare hard drive first if there's anything precious on it. I know how much hoop-jumping is necessary for this sort of thing.

I have x.2 on a near identical machine that I can test bootx compatiblilty with if you want, but I've no idea as to the bootx/xpostfacto interoperability.

ryker · Guru Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 412 Location: Portage, IN

I have an extra hd, but I'm not reallly worried about losing anything on my current hard drive. It's all a fresh setup and I don't have any important data to lose. I just got this machine a couple of months ago to play around with. I'm also kind of using it as an extra machine to use while my main machine is doing long compiles.
Anyway ..., In mac os8.5 I just dropped BootX in the system folder and created a kernels folder. I notice in osX the system folder looks a little empty, so I'm not sure if I need to do things differently in osX to get BootX to work. Also, in os8.5 there was a graphical utility to see what services (extensions) were running at boot etc. I can't find this utiitly in osx, so I'm not sure how to activate BootX in osX. Since ppc is new to me, I thought I would ask the experts here in the forum. :wink:

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SnEptUne · l33t Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 656

Have you installed the Classic Environment? In my other Mac that runs OSX, the system folder for the classic environment is not empty at all. In fact, it is pretty much the same old system folder with only a few modifications.

On the other hand, you should be able to select the services that the Classic Environment will run under Extensions in Control Panel. You would have to set your Classic Environment option in OSX to run services listed in Extension though.

However, I don't think it is a good idea to run Gentoo under the Classic Environment because OSX would occupy many resources. Do you have OS8/9 installed as well? In that case, you can simply boot from OS8/9 by setting the proper "system folder in startup disk".
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ryker · Guru Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 412 Location: Portage, IN

I don't have os 8 or 9 on it. I bought the machine and it had 8.5 on it and it didn't come with a cd. I messed up the os and did a clean install of osx.2 server. I searched online and found os 8.5 for around $40, but I can't see spending that just so I can boot into linux. There has to be a way without os 8 or 9.
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Athlon 64 3200+, 80G WD sata hd + 200G IDE, 1G Geil DDR400, MSI K8T Neo
IntelCore2Duo 2.0Ghz MSI laptop,100G SATA hd, 2G RAM