Ethan Benson wrote: > > I'm not sure how you would go about getting a good partition table. I have > > had > > problems w/ fdisk reading partition tables created by apple drive setup (and > > even pdisk). It forces me to destroy the existing partition table and > > create a > > new one... I might try creating linux partitions or blank hfs partitions w/ > > drive setup and just mounting them in the installer (and obviously formating > > them) > > not a good idea, the type will then be Apple_HFS and macos will > `helpfully' want to erase them at every bootup when it sees there is > no real hfs filesystem on them. >
Hmm...that only happened when I used fdisk in the installer; it worked fine when I just skipped fdisk. > Drive setup will not allow you to create it with the special type > (Apple_Bootstrap) which is required if you wnat it to remian bootable > without screwing with OF, if Macos is allows to mount it, it will > procede to make it unbootable. (reminds me of win95 overwriting > lilo...) > Hmm, okay. I only used yaboot, which works fine off of an hfs partition. HTH --Nelson Abramson -- Shouldn't people be arrested and persecuted for engaging in their constitutional rights? http://www.opendvd.org
