Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > For yaboot? Why would that be required? yaboot works fine for me, with a > > > bootstrap partition I cut off the HFS exchange partition rather at the > > > end of the disk ... > > > > it will work, but what happens if your OpenFirmware settings get > > reset? macos boots, not yaboot, which means you have to go into > > OpenFirmware yourself and change the boot-device variable manually. > > OK, if that's the whole reason ... It did seem like the bootstrap > partition absolutely has to be the first, and that might scare people who > already partitioned their disk, leaving empty space _after_ the MacOS > partition.
Do I get right that you are talking about the physical position? AFAIK only the logical partition number is important. If that was clear, please ignore this post :) Michel -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
