On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:33:00AM +0200, Georg Koss wrote: > Hello Ethan! > > Thanks for the complete answer, I'll follow your suggestions :-). > > > > > the only other thing i could suggest is removing or zeroing out the > > bootstrap partition on /dev/hdb having two bootable partitions in the > > same place on different disks could be confusing OpenFirmware. (it > > still doesn't deal with slaves that well in general based on the mail > > i get). > > If I would remove bootstrap on my ultra1:9 with mac-fdisk d, would it > leave my other linux-partitions with their content alive? > ...and would it be possible to eliminate the Apple-driver partitions > from that disk too without danger for existing linux-partitions?
yes, but i would use parted for that instead. i think just dding /dev/zero onto the second bootstrap partition is probably good enough. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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