Can't boot Mac OS 9 partition
 

D'oh! I had this problem with my Warty install. Yaboot comes up, and doesn't even list the Mac partition. After much labor, I finally got Yaboot configured so it would dual-boot. I upgraded to Breezy, and FORGOT to write down how I had it configured. I don't remember how I got the answer before. I have some data on that partition, otherwise I would just do a clean install and get rid of Mac OS. Can anyone give me a clue?

--Paul

I use an 'old world' mac, so I have little personal experience with yaboot. This looks like it might help jog your memory, though:
yaboot howto

A way to ditch macOS would be to mount your macOS partition, copy all your old data and back it up on a seperate medium (e.g. zip or cdr/rw),and then do a fresh ubuntu install.

I can mount the Mac partition while in Linux? All I need to do is get an AOL contact list, is there a way to get to that from Linux?

to see the list of partitions:
sudo fdisk -l

Apple usually has several tiny partitions at the beginning of the drive. Look for something big, and it should be listed before your linux partition.

To mount:
sudo mount -t hfs /dev/hd(x) /mnt

if it is an hfs+
sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/hd(x) /mnt

-note replace (x) with the partition number that you found from fdisk (e.g. hda4 or hda5, etc)

Your partition is mounted on /mnt. You can browse it by going to /mnt in nautilus, or you can simply cd /mnt and start looking.

When you are done, to unmount the partition:
sudo umount /mnt

If you are looking for IM contacts, those are stored in 'AOL land' and they should all show up by logging into your aol account with gaim. If it is an address book that you are looking for, unfortunately I do not know where macos stores that kind of information.

Wow, thanks. That was pretty cool, for a point-and-click guy like me. Unfortunately I couldn't find that address book, but it's good to know everything's still there. I *used to* have a paper printout, but I can't find it.

If I can install Mac-On-Linux, would I be able to mount that partition and just run the AOL application?

I edited yaboot.conf today to point it to the MacOS partition, even designated defaultos=macos, but it just boots right into Ubuntu like the MacOS wasn't there. I wish I understood this better. I thought I could get the information I need by reading the yaboot.conf man pages, but now I'm stumped.

--Paul

Problem solved
 

Apparently my usually keen grasp of the obvious is slipping. I neglected to run ybin, which installs the configuration in Open Firmware.

Thanks go out to Lanrond on Ubuntu forums for pointing this out.

--Paul