> >> > You didn't answer my implied question: do you need to keep the
> >> > Apple partition format, (f.e. because you need to keep MacOS on the
> >> > machine)?
> >>
> >> Yes, it is a beige Apple Power Macintosh G3 which does need
> >> BootX.
>
> There is no problem at all keeping the Apple partition format for LVM. I
Thanks for reporting this; and please disregard my rants about LVM
shortcomings...
> don't know why you had trouble, but it did work perfectly well for me.
> Here is my setup:
> /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 (
> 31.5k) Partition map
> /dev/hda2 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 tmp 204800 @ 64
> (100.0M) Linux native
> /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 204800 @ 204864
> (100.0M) Linux swap
> /dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 usr 4194304 @ 409664 (
> 2.0G) Linux native
> /dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 LVM-vg 14630752 @ 4603968 (
> 7.0G) Linux native
> /dev/hda6 Apple_HFS MOL-System 512000 @ 19234720
> (250.0M) HFS
Does LVM accept any partition name, or does it have to be LVM-something ??
Michael
