Re: Booting to Linux after installing MacOS X (Was: Re: getting pismo to boot by itself "smoke test")
> yes MacOSX is pulling a Microsoft, it reorders the partitions around
> and moves your bootstrap partition last, the only thing you can do is
> use mac-fdisk to put it back where it belongs: before all mac partitions.
Hmm. This doesn't seem to explain it. The output of mac-fdisk looks the
same as it did before the install: the "bootstrap" partition is still at
/dev/hda6. (I also discovered when I did this that the Mac OS X partition
is an HFS+ partition, rather than a UFS partition like I had instructed
the installer to create).
BTW: What do I add to sources.list to get "potato-proposed-updates"?
samsara:/home/mikef# mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda
/dev/hda
# type name length base
( size ) system
/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hda2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 64 @ 64
( 32.0k) Driver 4.3
/dev/hda3 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 64 @ 128
( 32.0k) Driver 4.3
/dev/hda4 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 64 @ 192
( 32.0k) Unknown
/dev/hda5 Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 256
(256.0k) Unknown
/dev/hda6 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 768
(800.0k) Unknown
/dev/hda7 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 / 9017752 @ 2368
( 4.3G) Linux native
/dev/hda8 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 614400 @ 9020120
(300.0M) Linux swap
/dev/hda9 Apple_HFS MacOS 2098600 @ 9634520
( 1.0G) HFS
Block size=512, Number of Blocks=11733120
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: @ 64 for 22, type=0x1
2: @ 128 for 36, type=0xffff
3: @ 192 for 33, type=0x701
Mike Fleming
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