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

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamalprasad@verizon.net>]

    "Sven" == Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:

    Sven> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:50:48PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad
    Sven> wrote:

    >> 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.

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

Actually, yes. The latest Disk Utility seems to show all partitions
other than the Apple_Bootstrap partition and those mysterious ones
that I believe are related to the partition map itself (the first one
annd the last one, I think). So I can see the Apple_UNIX_SVR2
partitions too.

On the older MacOS releases only the HFS+ partition shows up.

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

    Sven>   1) we can get apple to recognize those.

I don't believe this is a problem with the latest Mac OS X.

    Sven>   2) people can live with this smallish difference.

If they are running Linux and BSD on older MacOS I suppose they
already do :-)

Cheers!
Shyamal