Em Qui, 2004-01-15 Ãs 12:59, Michael Schmitz escreveu: > > Yes, it is a beige Apple Power Macintosh G3 which does need BootX. > > So you do indeed need to keep the original partition format. Without Apple > partition support in LVM, you could always try a sick hack: Add a PC style > partition table to the disk (they can, in fact, coexist, that's how dual > PC/Mac zip media are done). Make sure the partition maps match exactly, > and use the 0x8e partition type in the PC style table. AFAIR the kernel > does first probe for PC style partition tables, so it should work both > ways. Pointers to how to do this? Meaning, how to have both Mac and PC tables without each stepping on the other's toes? > This hack is not for the faint of heart, and I cannot stress enough that > you need to have a backup of your partition maps (the first few sectors of > the disk), as well as a method to restore the maps (booting from floppy, > or some such, with another floppy holding the backup) before even > considering such a hack. If the above doesn't make sense to you, please do > not attempt to force it. It does make sense, but not in the sense of actually knowing how to do it! ;-) In other words, gimme references (URLs, HOWTOs etc) and I'll try. Thanks for the help! -- Leandro GuimarÃes Faria Corcete Dutra <ldutra@prefeitura.sp.gov.br> Prefeitura do MunicÃpio de SÃo Paulo Governo EletrÃnico, Telecentros +55 (11) 5080 9647 http://br.geocities.com./lgcdutra/ +55 (11) 5080 9648 _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
