On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
} if you want macos, then you do need to first partition with the macos
} partitioner but you must create the placeholder partition for linux at
} the BEGINNING of the disk *NOT* the end.
}
} otherwise you can't put the bootstrap partition first and i get
} craploads of mail about how to fiddle with OF. always always put the
} bootstrap partition BEFORE any macos partitions,
Actually, you _CAN_. Your utility seems to work better than you give it
credit for. My partition table looks like:
# type name length base (size ) system
/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hda2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 54 @ 64 ( 27.0k) Driver 4.3
/dev/hda3 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 74 @ 118 ( 37.0k) Driver 4.3
/dev/hda4 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 54 @ 192 ( 27.0k) Unknown
/dev/hda5 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 74 @ 246 ( 37.0k) Unknown
/dev/hda6 Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 320 (256.0k) Unknown
/dev/hda7 Apple_HFS untitled 5120000 @ 832 ( 2.4G) HFS
/dev/hda8 Apple_HFS untitled 2 1740800 @ 5120832 (850.0M) HFS
/dev/hda9 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 10240 @ 6861632 ( 5.0M) Unknown
/dev/hda10 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 / 1024000 @ 6871872 (500.0M) Linux
native
/dev/hda11 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 77824 @ 7895872 ( 38.0M) Linux
swap
/dev/hda12 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /usr 1843200 @ 7973696 (900.0M) Linux
native
/dev/hda13 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /home 2868784 @ 9816896 ( 1.4G) Linux
native
As you can see, I have the bootstrap partition after all my MacOS stuff
and it works perfectly, as I am writing this on that very machine under
Potato, running my own 2.2.18 kernel. This is on a Lombard PB. I don't
think you will be getting "craploads of e-mail" about this ...
cheers
vinai
