Can yaboot support three OS choices for Linuxes and Mac OS X?

If you haven't read my other article on customizing yaboot, your best bet is actually to start here: Tweak yaboot so Mac OS X is my default OS, not Ubuntu or Yellow Dog Linux.

Having installed Yellow Dog, I suddenly couldn�t see Ubuntu any more. If I hadn�t previously written down the partition number that I used to install Ubuntu, I would have suspected that it had just vanished.

A quick query to Ethan Benson, developer of yaboot, and I had my answer: I needed to move the individual Linux partition specifier (it says partition=2) into the YDL section and add another section for Ubuntu that specified the partition of the Ubuntu installation (partition=9).

I ended up with two image blocks:

image=/boot/vmlinux-2.6.8-1.ydl.7
	partition=2
	label=yellowdog
	read-only
	initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.8-1.ydl.7.img
	root=/dev/hda2
	append=�rhgb quiet�

image=/boot/vmlinux
	partition=9
	root=/dev/hda9
	label=ubuntu
	read-only
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img

Works like a charm!

Learn more about Ubuntu Linux for Apple Macs, or learn more about Yellow Dog Linux. Both are very cool alternatives...