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From: Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@g.o>
To: gentoo-ppc-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac disk partitions
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:31:12
Message-Id: 20070430203021.GA28168@hansmi.ch
In Reply to: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac disk partitions by "A. Khattri"
1 Hi
2
3 On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 03:36:29PM -0400, A. Khattri wrote:
4 > According to mac-fdisk it appears to already have a boot partition on it.
5 > So can I skip the creation of a boot partition and use the existing one?
6
7 > /dev/sda2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 2048 @ 64 ( 1.0M) NewWorld bootblock
8
9 This is the 800k bootstrap partition, used by yaboot alone (at least
10 within Linux) and not to be formatted or mounted anywhere. On PowerPC
11 machines, you shouldn't create a /boot partition. Read the docs, please.
12
13 Greets,
14 Michael
15
16 --
17 Gentoo Linux developer, http://hansmi.ch/, http://forkbomb.ch/

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