Hi Manuel, On 10/19/24 9:31 AM, Manuel Molina Cuberos wrote: > ... > > I managed to partition the disk from OS 9 in order to be able to install > it, and left the third partition (before the empty space), as a 128 > MByte HFS one with "Apple HFS" type. > > Which tool can I use from OS 9 (or even OS X) to change the partition > type to "Apple_Bootstrap" ? > I'm curious about how you did that. I tried with pdisk but it won't let > me write the changes: > ... Any of these will work (and there are likely other ways as well):
1) Boot Mac OS X Tiger from a different disk, then use pdisk to partition your internal disk. 2) Hold down "T" while booting your iMac, then connect it to a different Mac that has Firewire and use pdisk from Mac OS X on that Mac to change the internal disk on your iMac. 3) From Mac OS 9, run NetBSD's pdisk. I had to use the mac68k version so it would see internal ATA disks (the ppc version only sees SCSI disks); pdisk is available here: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0/mac68k/installation/misc/pdisk.sea.hqx In Mac OS 9, pdisk (somewhat unsafely) lets you change (or rename) partitions even if they're active. That can come in handy if you can't boot from a different disk. hope that helps -Stan
