On 2008/Jun/13, at 08:04, Sterling Garwood wrote: > A 'Mirrored Drive Door' mac refers to a model of Powermac tower with a > shiny front bezel. It was available with 1 or 2 processors at speeds > IIRC from 1.0 to 1.25 GHz. Even Apple refers to them as MDD macs.
> A bit more info- > the partitions are Apple_UNIX_SVR2 but Leopard still complains via a > dialog box at boot time about an > unknown disk partition - could it be the swap partition for YDL??? I don't think so - The swap partition would also be type ``Apple_UNIX_SVR2`` and so you would have seen *two* ``Erase-Eject- Ignore`` dialogs. > Is there no one out there who runs YDL 6 and MacOSX in my > configuration? The Suse people have figured out how to coexist quite > nicely in this configuration but their release has some other serious > issues I've hit. I suspect that the problem is Leopard - or, at least, a poorly- documented change in the disk management system from X.4 to X.5. I've been able to put Classic, OS Xs 10.2.8-10.4.11, Darwins 7 & 8, *and* Yellow Dogs 3.0.1-6 on the same hard disk (on their own partitions, of course) without any boot or partition problems. Even now I have Classic, X.4.11, and YDL 6 purring cooperatively on my TiBook. I removed Leopard shortly after installing on my TiBook* so I've never had any experience with Leopard and YDL on the same disk. If I had to guess, I'd suggest that Leopard now expects all Apple_UNIX_SVR2 partitions to be UFS formatted and to have ``bzb flags`` set (OS X pdisk; YDL doesn't set any ``bzb``s AFAICT). So when Leopard discovers that the partition is unintelligible (since there's inexcusably *still* no ext2/ext3 support), it throws up the ``Erase-Eject-Ignore`` dialog. ______ ______ \_(_)_\ /_(_)_/ (*) Two major reasons why: (1) X11 was tinkered with to the point that I could not install (let alone run) Kile, Gimp, or ImageMagick. (2) Leopard was so slow that a IIcx running A/UX on 16MB RAM is a comparative speed demon. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
