Re: Trouble with Dual boot MacOSX/Woody - Yaboot on G4 Gigabit

[Nicolai Langfeldt <janl@langfeldt.net>]

Jeroen Diederen wrote:

> Did you guys know that OSX has to reside within the first 8 Gb of the 
> hard disk ? 

That's odd. My OSX is at the 45th GigaByte or so.  The Yellow Dog 
install guide recommends that the OSX partition is the last on the disk. 
Maybe the 8Gb limit is related to some older version of the boot firmware?

dev/hda
       #                    type name                  length   
base      ( size )  system
dump: name /dev/hda len 8
/dev/hda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @ 
1         ( 31.5k)  Partition map
/dev/hda2         Apple_Bootstrap Boot                  102400 @ 
64        ( 50.0M)  NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hda3         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root                 4194304 @ 
102464    (  2.0G)  Linux native
/dev/hda4         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 home                 1048576 @ 
4296768   (512.0M)  Linux native
/dev/hda5         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                 4194304 @ 
5345344   (  2.0G)  Linux swap
/dev/hda6         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 usr                 14716992 @ 
9539648   (  7.0G)  Linux native
/dev/hda7               Apple_UFS Utveksling          62914560 @ 
24256640  ( 30.0G)  Unknown
/dev/hda8               Apple_HFS MacOS X             30039032 @ 
87171200  ( 14.3G)  HFS
/dev/hda9              Apple_Free                            8 @ 
117210232 (  4.0k)  Free space

Nicolai