> >> > You didn't answer my implied question: do you need to keep the > >> > Apple partition format, (f.e. because you need to keep MacOS on the > >> > machine)? > >> > >> Yes, it is a beige Apple Power Macintosh G3 which does need > >> BootX. > > There is no problem at all keeping the Apple partition format for LVM. I
Thanks for reporting this; and please disregard my rants about LVM shortcomings... > don't know why you had trouble, but it did work perfectly well for me. > Here is my setup: > /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( > 31.5k) Partition map > /dev/hda2 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 tmp 204800 @ 64 > (100.0M) Linux native > /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 204800 @ 204864 > (100.0M) Linux swap > /dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 usr 4194304 @ 409664 ( > 2.0G) Linux native > /dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 LVM-vg 14630752 @ 4603968 ( > 7.0G) Linux native > /dev/hda6 Apple_HFS MOL-System 512000 @ 19234720 > (250.0M) HFS Does LVM accept any partition name, or does it have to be LVM-something ?? Michael