thanks ... I am going to move back to 10.4.11 Server - I think you are probably right about the Leopard changes ... BTW I have done some benchmarking of Leopard, Tiger, and YDL. Tiger was slow in context switches but Leopard is even slower!!!
On Jun 13, 2008, at 1:38 PM, NeoAmsterdam wrote: > 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' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
