> > For yaboot? Why would that be required? yaboot works fine for me, with a
> > bootstrap partition I cut off the HFS exchange partition rather at the
> > end of the disk ...
>
> it will work, but what happens if your OpenFirmware settings get
> reset? macos boots, not yaboot, which means you have to go into
> OpenFirmware yourself and change the boot-device variable manually.
OK, if that's the whole reason ... It did seem like the bootstrap
partition absolutely has to be the first, and that might scare people who
already partitioned their disk, leaving empty space _after_ the MacOS
partition.
Michael
