Em Qui, 2004-01-15 às 19:37, Mich Lanners escreveu: > On 15 Jan, this message from Simon Vallet echoed through cyberspace: > > There is no problem at all keeping the Apple partition format for LVM. [...] > ( 2.0G) Linux native > /dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 LVM-vg 14630752 @ 4603968 ( > 7.0G) Linux native [...] > invisible to MacOS. Therefore, I don't need the Apple driver partitions. > Nevertheless, I chose to use an Apple partition map (and not PC-style > partitions) because Apple's partitioning scheme is less braindamaged (no > logical partition within some primary partition etc..) and because it > allows block-size granularity by default when assigning partition sizes > (and not some legacy C/H/S size spec). [...] > So, for LVM, try again, and make sure you follow some HOWTO
Thanks for the info! It worked! Indeed I didn't need any kind of mark or name for LVM. What misguided me was precisely the LVM HOWTO, which instructed to mark the partition as 0x8e. On your tips I just left it as free space, and LVM was quite happy; when I had tried marking it as 0x8E or 0xDA or 0x83 or whatever, it complained bitterly at vgcreate and pvdisplay. So perhaps LVM and its documentation is too PC-centric... oi vei... > The modified first.b is at: > > http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan/ftp/quik-first.b-g3 Let me make this system work in my home LAN and I will try to get time to make it boot freely! Thanks a lot! -- Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Prefeitura do Município de São Paulo Governo Eletrônico, Telecentros +55 (11) 5080 9647 http://br.geocities.com./lgcdutra/ +55 (11) 5080 9648