Partition setup, and an SMP question

[Natalia Portillo]

MOL seemed to not be happy with virtual disks of more that 2Gb in certain
situations.

Of course, hformat formats the partition in HFS and OS X needs it to be HFS+
(this is not really a problem as you can always format it in the installer
in advanced options). 

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: mol-general-bounces at lists.maconlinux.org 
> [mailto:mol-general-bounces at lists.maconlinux.org] En nombre 
> de Adam Lynch
> Enviado el: lunes, 18 de octubre de 2004 17:57
> Para: mol-general at lists.maconlinux.org
> Asunto: Partition setup, and an SMP question
> 
>   I've got a dual G4/450 PowerMac, running Gentoo. I've 
> installed  MOL via Portage, and everything seemed to go well, 
> with no errors.
> 
>   I installed Gentoo to be the primary OS, and left a few GB 
> free for OS X (I kinda planned on MOL, once Gentoo was installed).
> 
>   Now I'm there. ;-)
> 
>   I'd ideally like to use the remaining space for OS X, but 
> I'm not sure how I need to partition it...
> 
>   Here's the current partition table:
> 
> /dev/hda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                    63 
> @ 1        
> ( 31.5k)  Partition map
> /dev/hda2         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                2097152 
> @ 64       
> (  1.0G)  Linux swap
> /dev/hda3         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root               41943040 
> @ 2097216  
> ( 20.0G)  Linux native
> /dev/hda4         Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap              1600 
> @ 44040256 
> (800.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
> /dev/hda5              Apple_Free Extra              15988576 
> @ 44041856 
> (  7.6G)  Free space
> 
>   I created a new partiton on hda5, filling the space. During 
> the create, I set the type to be "Apple_HFS", and named the 
> new partition "Apple_HFS_Untitled". I then ran hformat -l "OS 
> X" /dev/hda5, and it ran.
> 
>   Once that was done, I booted the installer discs for 10.3, 
> and it found the "OS X" disk, but only 2GB of it, but it said 
> it couldn't install to that volume.
> 
>   The applicable section of /etc/mol/molrc.osx is:
> 
> blkdev:                 /dev/hda5       -rw -boot
> blkdev:                 /dev/cdrom      -cd -ro
> 
>   Any thoughts as to what I need to do to get it cooking?
> 
> 
>   Also, as a side note, how does MOL handle SMP? I'm going to 
> assume the kernel module is SMP-safe, but will OSX see 2 
> procs and use them accordingly?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --
> Adam Lynch
> e-mail: alynch at braindumplings.com
> web: http://www.braindumplings.com/
> 
>   "I'm pretty sure I could entertain myself in solitary confinement."
> 
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