On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:50:48PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > "Michael" == Michael Schmitz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Michael> s/MockOS/MacOS/g > > Michael> to anything but Apple_Bootstrap, Apple_HFS, > Michael> Apple_UNIX_SVR2 or Apple_Free. If you're sure (or just > Michael> reasonably confident) Linux_LVM will be ignored by > Michael> > > Sven> Just give it a try and enlighten us. > > Michael> Just as soon as I get another spare disk. BTW anyone can > Michael> try that, so the call goes to the Mac users in general. > > I have a PowerMac7,3 (Dual G5) that is intended to run Linux so I gave > it a shot.
Over cool. > I created a partition with type Linux_LVM and name LVM_Test using > mac-fdisk. I put an ext3 file system on the partition so I could > fsck/mount it to see if the Mac OS programs or OF screwed around with > the partition data itself. Then I did the following tests. > > Booted into Mac OS X 10.3.7 (Open Firmware 5.1.8f7) and used the Disk > Utility to look at the partitions. The test partition shows up, and a > "Get Info" showed its type as 'Linux_LVM'. Booted back into Linux and > the Linux_LVM partition was still good. Tell me, when you create a Apple_UNIX_SVR2 partition, does it show up too ? I guess not, then this would be the main difference, and we have to see if : 1) we can get apple to recognize those. 2) people can live with this smallish difference. Thanks for your rather extensive testing. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
