On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:11:45PM -0500, Rick Cook wrote: > [root@p7300 /root]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Disk /dev/sdb: 67 heads, 62 sectors, 1009 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 4154 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 1 3 6200 83 Linux > /dev/sdb2 4 67 132928 82 Linux swap > /dev/sdb3 68 1009 1956534 83 Linux looks like a x86 partition table to me. > [root@p7300 /root]# pdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/sdb' > #: type name length base ( size ) > 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 > 2: Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 32 @ 64 > 3: Apple_HFS MacOS 256770 @ 96 (125.4M) > 4: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Root file system 410832 @ 256866 (200.6M) > 5: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Usr file system 2567700 @ 667698 ( 1.2G) > 6: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Unreserved 1 244020 @ 3235398 (119.2M) > 7: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Unreserved 2 400890 @ 3479418 (195.7M) > 8: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Swap 129185 @ 3880308 ( 63.1M) > 9: Apple_HFS MacOS 184561 @ 4009493 ( 90.1M) > 10: Apple_Free Extra 3 @ 4194054 > > Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=4194056 (2.0G) > DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 interesting, how are you booting this system? miboot or quik? if miboot it seems that the macos rom only insists on a driver for CDs (or does it???) [snip] > Anyone have a clue why both partition maps are coexisting on the same drive? Do > I need to do anything to "fix" this? it just so happens that the structure of the Apple partition table allows for a intel x86 partition to exist at the same time. there are some very rare cases where this might be useful but i really don't see the point in this case. (especially since they partitions don't even match) since the linux kernel has for a while support apple partition tables i really don't see the point of this anymore but from /usr/share/doc/mac-fdisk/README.gz: Making a disk with Apple & Intel partitioning --------------------------------------------- Don't cringe. I know it is an awful hack, but sometimes... While I don't recommend doing this, it can be useful. The procedure below is what we did. The intel map can contain NO MORE THAN FOUR PRIMARY PARTITIONS. You can't have any extended or logical partitions. (Well, you might get it to work but I wouldn't want to try it.) The disk will NOT BE INTEL BOOTABLE. 1) Use pdisk to initialize an apple partition map. Don't add any partitions yet, just write the map out and quit. 2) Use fdisk to create the primary partitions. Go into the expert 'x' menu in fdisk and print out the table with the sector addresses. Write the start and lengths down some where. Write the table out. 3) Use pdisk again. Shrink the partition map down, if necessary, so it does not overlap any intel partition. Create an apple partition for each intel partition using the start and length value you got from fdisk. Write out the map and quit. At present file systems are not compatible between Linux & MkLinux, but you can tar stuff into these partitions and tar them out on another machine. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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