Hello, I am very new in this matter (I have just set my intel mini mac (dual core)), but so far I can understand, for an EFI machine, the first partition seems to have a very well defined role: so may be it is not that safe to do something unexpected with it.
Jerome Jools Smyth wrote: > On Wednesday 23 August 2006 22:36, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I have setup my machines with dual boot and use LVM on the GNU/Linux side, >> so I have 4 partitions: a 200MB hidden EFI/FAT partition, a 36GB MacOSX >> partition, a 200MB /boot partition, and a 36GB LVM partition. >> >> When I look at the /dev/sda1 partition, I see I can mount it and >> it's empty. What's up with it, really. Is it a pseudo-FAT which actually >> uses the space for other things? Is it dangerous or not to write to it? >> Could I even use it for my /boot ? > > I've used it as the boot. You have to add an addition parameter to bless to > get the machine to boot from it. > > Best Regards > > Jools -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
