Re: PowerPC kernels, partitioning on macppc
> On Tue, 24 May 2005 06:33 pm, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Is there any documentation on these partition maps?
Use the source, Luke. Or search the Apple techinfo database. I don't know
of any other documentation.
> > These two contain code to let MacOS boot from the disk. Only Apple disk
> > utilities can generate these partitions.
>
> The Debian installer created the partitions even after I had trashed them a
> few times, so the developers must have figured out how those partitions work
> and how to create them.
The installer created the Driver43 and Driver_ATA partitions? I would have
thought the driver code to be copyrighted by Apple, and not
redistributable. Weird.
Michael
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