reboot after installation fails

[Atro Tossavainen]

> That simply isn't true.  The only operating system that requires those 
> special partitions to be present is MacOS 9 (or earlier), because they 
> are MacOS 9 device drivers that 9 needs to mount or boot data 
> partitions on that disk.  If you partition a disk using the OS X Disk 
> Utility, there is an option to not create them.  I have booted both OS 
> X and Linux off drives that have only two or three partitions because 
> none of the MacOS9 driver partitions are present.

Glad to be wrong on this.  Would you please explain why Andi's bootup
failed?  I don't want to install the OS9 partitions next time, either.

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