Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on Intel Mac Mini?

[Robert J. King]

On Friday 27 February 2009 11:32:04 pm Grant Edwards wrote:
 
  1.  The 2008.0 livecd's version of grub doesn't have the Mac
  partition patch.  Simple update of portage and then grub
  fixes this.

 Do the livecds now use grub?  I thought they used syslinux.
 Maybe I'm thinking of a different livecd.
The livecd's boot is fine.  I was refering to grub is installed to the HD by 
default.  Can ignore it anyway as 2008.0-r1 installs grub-0.97-r4 that has 
the gpt patch.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on Intel Mac Mini?

[Robert J. King]

On Saturday 28 February 2009 10:21:40 am Grant Edwards wrote:
 I see.  I don't plan on installing to the HD, so it's not
 something I need to worry about ... except I guess installing
 to a USB flash drive is logically equivalent, so I probably do
 have to worry about it.  I wonder if Linux and OS-X can share a
 swap partition...
The way my mac came from the factory was with 2 partitons.  The first, I 
think, is some special partition needed for EFI and doesn't even show in OSX 
disk util.  The second is the OSX HFS+ partition.  What I did was resize the 
HFS+ partition in OSX with disk util then created 2 new partitions for 
linux-swap and linux with parted on the livecd.