Yaboot menu - How many OSes are possible?

hi there,

I wonder, how many OS can be managed with yaboot?

Right now, I got:

l = Linux (Debian 8.2)
m = macos (MorphOS 3.9)
x = macos-x 10.4.11

c = cd-rom
o=open Firmware

configured.

What, if I want to install another Linux to it? Is this even possible, without hurting the already existing installations?
I was thinking of assign the already existing swap to the new install´s swap and install another “/” to a free Partition, i already got on this device.

Hi @Elowan,

does this help you at all?:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ#What_do_I_need_to_know_for_dual-booting.3F

yes, a bit. at least I know “swap” can be “used by multiple Linux installs” :wink:

But the other question(s) still remain…

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I decided to delete / install into existing Linux Partition and tweak yaboot after it, to load all the other installed OS´es.

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i am very new to multibooting on PPC, i'm happy with any reasonably modern Linux distro that will run on my g5. what i really want to know is how you managed to get yaboot to load osx, linux AND morphOS. any help you or anyone else gives me would be vastly appreciated.

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