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Joe McMahon wrote: |
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> One final thing: there is a limit on the size of the bootable |
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> partition on a Lombard (it needs to occur within the first 8 GB of you |
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> disk). I *think* using yaboot in a tiny boot partition will get around |
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> this, but I don't have a machine of that vintage with a big enough |
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> disk to try it. |
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Great, I just dropped in a beautiful 100 GB hard drive... < brag |
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topic="HardDriveSpecs">100 GB, 5400 RPM, 16 MB cache... oh yeah! </brag> |
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Anyway, it shouldn't be a problem. The 10 GB hard drive that came with |
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the computer had one large partition (~9.7 GB) which successfully booted |
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Mac OS 9.0.4, so my guess is that any partition should boot just fine. |
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The only problems with the Lombard hard drive controller AFAIK are the |
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137 GB barrier and the fact that most ATA-6/7 hard drives aren't |
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usable. (Earlier IDE Macs, though, like the Beige G3 and early iMacs |
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did have an 8 GB boot code boundary.) |
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Colin |
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