Re: Partitioning for X/9/Linux
Colin <[email protected]>
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Joe McMahon wrote: > One final thing: there is a limit on the size of the bootable > partition on a Lombard (it needs to occur within the first 8 GB of you > disk). I *think* using yaboot in a tiny boot partition will get around > this, but I don't have a machine of that vintage with a big enough > disk to try it. > Great, I just dropped in a beautiful 100 GB hard drive... < brag topic="HardDriveSpecs">100 GB, 5400 RPM, 16 MB cache... oh yeah! </brag> Anyway, it shouldn't be a problem. The 10 GB hard drive that came with the computer had one large partition (~9.7 GB) which successfully booted Mac OS 9.0.4, so my guess is that any partition should boot just fine. The only problems with the Lombard hard drive controller AFAIK are the 137 GB barrier and the fact that most ATA-6/7 hard drives aren't usable. (Earlier IDE Macs, though, like the Beige G3 and early iMacs did have an 8 GB boot code boundary.) -- Colin -- [email protected] mailing list