> The reason I ask is it looks as if the newer macs OF is broken in > such a way that it will require a partition dedicated to holding the > boot loader (if you want to get rid of non-Free macos)
I'm not under the opinion that all software should be free, BUT I was also dismayed that I needed a MacOS partition to boot my beige g3 desktop. The way I've come to look at it is, I have a 100 meg bootloader partition (HFS, MacOS, BootX) on my hard disk. Unlike lilo, I have full gui, self-diagnostic tools (disk first aid), and even a Java capable web browser in my boot loader. Not only that, my bootloader can contain an entire live-filesystem. Kind of makes silo, milo, and lilo look bad. MacOS: the most robust bootloader for Linux. I think this is the most optimistic way to look at big booting kludge. And my tongue was firmly embedded in cheek while writing.
