Joe McMahon wrote:
One final thing: there is a limit on the size of the bootable
partition on a Lombard (it needs to occur within the first 8 GB of you
disk). I *think* using yaboot in a tiny boot partition will get around
this, but I don't have a machine of that vintage with a big enough
disk to try it.
Great, I just dropped in a beautiful 100 GB hard drive... < brag
topic="HardDriveSpecs">100 GB, 5400 RPM, 16 MB cache... oh yeah! </brag>
Anyway, it shouldn't be a problem. The 10 GB hard drive that came with
the computer had one large partition (~9.7 GB) which successfully booted
Mac OS 9.0.4, so my guess is that any partition should boot just fine.
The only problems with the Lombard hard drive controller AFAIK are the
137 GB barrier and the fact that most ATA-6/7 hard drives aren't
usable. (Earlier IDE Macs, though, like the Beige G3 and early iMacs
did have an 8 GB boot code boundary.)
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Colin
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