'ello, On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 11:54, Carlos Perello Marin wrote: > hda1 is where is stored the partition map, if you delete/lose it, your > harddisk will become an empty disk to any operating system.
<snip> > The hda2 partition is only needed with nonApple Operating systems. You > can boot the macosx installation CD without it (I'm always talking about > newworld machines). The bootstrap partition (hda2) is where linux kernel > (and I suppose the BSD one) is installed so OF can boot it, for MacOSX, > OF can boot directly from the HFS+ partition. Thanks -- it's quite a relief to know that I can always bootstrap myself back onto OS X and start again if I mess things up! bye just now, -- Matthew T. Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
