mudmanc4 Posted October 5, 2007 CID Share Posted October 5, 2007 Anyone here familiar w/ partitioning a mac w/ ubuntu? Had corrupted osx, so I erased the drive w/ ubuntu ppc. The issue I'm having is I cannot seem to find the option to create an hfs apple-bootstrap partition for the yaboot boot-loader. So far I have four primary partitions, [ext3] , one is the swap,(Linux swap), one is /Boot, one is /usr , and also /home. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? As the system needs a hfs /boot in front of the rest, wich I have , but does not specify "boot-strap" . Can I do this after configuration, w/o being able to boot to the 1st partition? Thanks for any info : ) edit : dubbed " new world" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted October 5, 2007 Author CID Share Posted October 5, 2007 srry bump, but I am awaiting installation , and I think I can do this in " parted" once I get final installation, just by mounting the cd only , therefore accessing the partitions on /root , and changing /boot flag on hfs. we shall see , then ya'll can ask me lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted October 6, 2007 Author CID Share Posted October 6, 2007 Nope, no dice. Anyone here? wow I expected someone to know . I shall return Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted October 6, 2007 CID Share Posted October 6, 2007 I feel for ya. IT experts here and no one replys. Its a sad day in Denmark! So the saying goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted October 6, 2007 CID Share Posted October 6, 2007 I would normally know but powerpc its out for me. I stayed away from powerpc macs. But if you can get a 10.5 or higher OS X disk you could do it using the built in partitioner. Or a copy of open suse will do it also i believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted October 6, 2007 Author CID Share Posted October 6, 2007 I would normally know but powerpc its out for me. I stayed away from powerpc macs. But if you can get a 10.5 or higher OS X disk you could do it using the built in partitioner. Or a copy of open suse will do it also i believe. I don't have OSX, but I may get it soon, and I do have open suse, but won't boot on a ppc machine. There is a partitioner on the ubuntu ppc version, but it doesn't give me the option to create the apple-bootstrap partition. I would " bless" the "/" partition , but It turns it into " hda/Media " while setting up the four primaries. I know there's a way to do this using open firmware, just getting there is my issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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