Re: PowerPC kernels, partitioning on macppc

2005-05-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/05/05 11:13), Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > Is there any documentation on these partition maps? > > > > > > Use the source, Luke. Or search the Apple techinfo database. I don't know > > > of any other documentation. > > > > Apple's documentation of this stuff is surprisingly useful. If you

Re: PowerPC kernels, partitioning on macppc

2005-05-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > > Is there any documentation on these partition maps? > > > > Use the source, Luke. Or search the Apple techinfo database. I don't know > > of any other documentation. > > Apple's documentation of this stuff is surprisingly useful. If you really > care about reading or writing them, look on the

Re: PowerPC kernels, partitioning on macppc

2005-05-24 Thread Brad Boyer
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:26:24AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Is there any documentation on these partition maps? > > Use the source, Luke. Or search the Apple techinfo database. I don't know > of any other documentation. Apple's documentation of this stuff is surprisingly useful. If you r

Re: PowerPC kernels, partitioning on macppc

2005-05-24 Thread Michael Schmitz
> On Tue, 24 May 2005 06:33 pm, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > That's the partition table itself. Apple found it merits its own entry in > > the partition map. As such, mac-fdisk will also create this entry. > > Is there any documentation on these partition maps? Use the source, Luke. Or search the Ap

Re: PowerPC kernels, partitioning on macppc

2005-05-24 Thread James Buchanan
On Tue, 24 May 2005 06:33 pm, Michael Schmitz wrote: > That's the partition table itself. Apple found it merits its own entry in > the partition map. As such, mac-fdisk will also create this entry. Is there any documentation on these partition maps? > These two contain code to let MacOS boot from

Re: PowerPC kernels, partitioning on macppc

2005-05-24 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Not sure about the apple partition, but a mac-fdisk on mine reports > three partitions around the size you mention. /dev/hda1 type: > Apple_partition_map name: Apple Size 31.5k System: partition map, That's the partition table itself. Apple found it merits its own entry in the partition map. A

Re: PowerPC kernels, partitioning on macppc

2005-05-23 Thread Till Straumann
Regarding PPC architecture, assembly etc.: The 32-bit PowerPC architecture and assembly language are extensively (including caches, MMU etc.) described e.g., here: http://www.freescale.com/files/product/doc/MPCFPE32B.pdf On the FreeScale (motorola) site you can also find documents describing Al

Re: PowerPC kernels, partitioning on macppc

2005-05-23 Thread Mike S
James Buchanan wrote: Hi everyone, I'm new to the PowerPC platform, and tried to install Sarge netinst this evening. My experience with the printk messages being suppressed during package installation is in another post to debian-powerpc and debian-boot lists. Can someone tell me what the