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Hi
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 03:36:29PM -0400, A. Khattri wrote:
> According to mac-fdisk it appears to already have a boot partition on it.
> So can I skip the creation of a boot partition and use the existing one?
> /dev/sda2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 2048 @ 64 ( 1.0M) NewWorld bootblock
This is the 800k bootstrap partition, used by yaboot alone (at least
within Linux) and not to be formatted or mounted anywhere. On PowerPC
machines, you shouldn't create a /boot partition. Read the docs, please.
Greets,
Michael
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