From: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
To: Michel Lanners <mlan@cpu.lu>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, clausen@gnu.org, parted@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU Parted, linuxppc support coming :-)
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 21:07:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000707210726.C7162@plato.local.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200007060537.HAA01020@piglet.grunz.lu>; from mlan@cpu.lu on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 07:37:34AM +0200
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On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 07:37:34AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> >> Excuse my ignorance... what FS's do people usually use with MacOS?
> >> HFS/HFS+?
>
> Something wanted to add to a previous mail in the thread:
>
> Don't forget that there are lots of Macs that _absolutely_ need at least
> one HFS partition and an Aple partition map on one of there disks,
> because that's the only thing the ROM can boot some OS from.
>
> AFAICT, all pre-NewWorld machines are in this case, except maybe some
> that can be tweaked to network boot...
oldworld macs this is true i think. newworld macs CAN boot from a
disk with DOS partition tables, but you have to configure OpenFirmware
to non-standard settings. with a small Apple_Bootstrap partition in
HFS format setup by ybin will boot with defaults.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-07-08 5:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-04 21:44 GNU Parted, linuxppc support coming :-) Andrew Clausen
2000-07-05 12:07 ` Hollis Blanchard
2000-07-04 23:07 ` Andrew Clausen
2000-07-05 20:01 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2000-07-06 5:37 ` Michel Lanners
2000-07-08 5:07 ` Ethan Benson [this message]
2000-07-08 8:58 ` Timothy A. Seufert
2000-07-10 22:19 ` Michel Lanners
2000-07-05 12:26 ` Michel Dänzer
2000-07-04 23:06 ` Andrew Clausen
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2000-07-05 14:49 Iain Sandoe
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