Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:50:48PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> 
>     "Michael" == Michael Schmitz
>     <schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> writes: 
> 
>     Michael> s/MockOS/MacOS/g
> 
>     Michael> to anything but Apple_Bootstrap, Apple_HFS,
>     Michael> Apple_UNIX_SVR2 or Apple_Free.  If you're sure (or just
>     Michael> reasonably confident) Linux_LVM will be ignored by
>     Michael> 
> 
>     Sven> Just give it a try and enlighten us.
> 
>     Michael> Just as soon as I get another spare disk. BTW anyone can
>     Michael> try that, so the call goes to the Mac users in general.
> 
> I have a PowerMac7,3 (Dual G5) that is intended to run Linux so I gave
> it a shot. 

Over cool.

> I created a partition with type Linux_LVM and name LVM_Test using
> mac-fdisk. I put an ext3 file system on the partition so I could
> fsck/mount it to see if the Mac OS programs or OF screwed around with
> the partition data itself. Then I did the following tests.
>  
> Booted into Mac OS X 10.3.7 (Open Firmware 5.1.8f7) and used the Disk
> Utility to look at the partitions. The test partition shows up, and a
> "Get Info" showed its type as 'Linux_LVM'. Booted back into Linux and
> the Linux_LVM partition was still good.

Tell me, when you create a Apple_UNIX_SVR2 partition, does it show up too ? 

I guess not, then this would be the main difference, and we have to see if :

  1) we can get apple to recognize those.

  2) people can live with this smallish difference.

Thanks for your rather extensive testing.

Friendly,

Sven Luther