GNU Parted, linuxppc support coming :-)

[Michel Lanners]

Hi all,

On   8 Jul, this message from Timothy A. Seufert echoed through cyberspace:
>>>  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.
>
> Not completely true.  They do have to have a Mac partition table but
> I'm pretty sure you can get away without any HFS partitions if you
> use quik to boot.  Granted, that's a pain, but it can be done.

You are right. OF only accesses the boot block of a partition marked
bootable. It probably doesn't know filesystems at all.

Michel

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