[Grrr .. sorry for following-up my own post] On 7/12/06, Chasecreek Systemhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2) Some boot managers expect it to be separate and formated as ext2 (as opposed to ext3) -- however these days yaboot can see the boot software even inside / when formated at ext3.
On PowerPC (read Apple) hard drives it must be formated as HFSl on Ultrasparcs it must be formated as a recognized SUN Disk Label (which I give again, as an example.)
This is the way the drive *must* be laid out before the OpenFirmware Boot manager will "see" it (I list it the way I know it will always work for *me* but YMMV because while I have used various types of 'linux' on a couple hundred Macs I realise that there can still be "gotchas" floating around, and people's experience levels vary a great deal) - /dev/[hs]d?1 -- Apple Disk Label as created by the Apple Disk Formatter; it is usually ~32KB in size... /dev/[hs]d?2 -- Linux OpenBoot Partition, must be formatted 1MB and be created as HFS not HFS+ or ext2/3. Beyond those two required partitions I don't see any issues with laying out the disk anyway you want; but those two are not negotiable. This advice falls under the "Works for me" category =) -- WC (Bill) Jones -- http://youve-reached-the.endoftheinternet.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
