Re: PowerPC kernels, partitioning on macppc

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

> Not sure about the apple partition, but a mac-fdisk on mine reports
> three partitions around the size you mention.  /dev/hda1 type:
> Apple_partition_map name: Apple Size 31.5k  System: partition map,

That's the partition table itself. Apple found it merits its own entry in
the partition map. As such, mac-fdisk will also create this entry.

> /dev/hda3 type: Apple_Driver43  name: Macintosh size: 37.0k system:
> Driver 4.3, /dev/hda5 type: Apple_Driver_ATA name: Macintosh size: 37.0k
> system: Unknown

These two contain code to let MacOS boot from the disk. Only Apple disk
utilities can generate these partitions.

The 1 MB partition the OP mentioned is the bootstrap partition for yaboot.

	Michael