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On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Michael Hanselmann wrote: |
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> This is the 800k bootstrap partition, used by yaboot alone (at least |
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> within Linux) and not to be formatted or mounted anywhere. On PowerPC |
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> machines, you shouldn't create a /boot partition. Read the docs, please. |
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I figured it out but you really should go back and re-read my post. I did |
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not mention /boot anywhere and YES I DID read the docs so maybe you could |
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be a little less insulting next time? |
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From |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml?part=1&chap=4#doc_chap3: |
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"Second, create an Apple_Bootstrap partition by using b. It will ask for |
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what block you want to start. Enter the number of your first free |
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partition, followed by a p. For instance this is 2p." |
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I already had what looked like a boot partition but I was asking here to |
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make sure I was doing the right thing by ignoring what the docs say in |
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my particular situation (which, as I mentioned, was a machine which |
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already had another distro on it). |
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Sheesh. |
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