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 https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/20380-partitioning-ubuntu-mac-ppc/ 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 https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/20380-partitioning-ubuntu-mac-ppc/#findComment-244453 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 https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/20380-partitioning-ubuntu-mac-ppc/#findComment-244594 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 https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/20380-partitioning-ubuntu-mac-ppc/#findComment-244596 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 https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/20380-partitioning-ubuntu-mac-ppc/#findComment-244598 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 https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/20380-partitioning-ubuntu-mac-ppc/#findComment-244672 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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