Re: Proper partitioning
On Aug 19 2009, Jason Hsu wrote:
> What are the appropriate partitions for using Debian on a PowerPC?
What powerpc do you have in mind? The partitioning scheme differs
regarding the bootloader that you are using.
If you are using uBoot, then a simple partition scheme like the old PC
scheme "works for me". I'm not sure if there is any PowerPC that uses a
partitioning scheme like EFI (or, even, if it would make sense for the
platform).
If you are using a Mac based on PowerPC, you would employ essentially,
the route of creating:
* a first partition that describes the other partions (Apple calls this
the "partition map");
* one (plain) HFS partition where OpenFirmware (the "BIOS" that Macs
use) can load things from---this partition is usually very small
(usually just 800KB of size).
* the other partitions that you would like to have (swap, root, usr, var
etc).
On NewWorld PPC machines, the yaboot boot code is installed in the small
HFS partition (which OF is able to read from), when ybin is run.
IIRC, just using the standard fdisk for Macs gives you a way to erase
everything and create the first partition automatically (perhaps the i
option or something similar). The rest are just regular partitions.
I would be interested to know how other people are using GRUB2 with
NewWorld machines, as when I tried to install it, it complained
something about not knowing how to handle the graphical framebuffer and
I went back to the tried and trusted yaboot route.
Regards, Rogério Brito.
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