[ydl-gen] How to have YDL and Leopard coexist

Sterling Garwood slgarwood at charter.net
Thu Jun 12 12:32:29 MDT 2008


I'll give it a shot ... I do know that the current suseLinux correctly  
creates the Apple_UNIX_SVR2 format partitions (but it has a lot of  
other problems...:-)

On Jun 12, 2008, at 9:52 AM, NeoAmsterdam wrote:

> I had this problem with Mac OS 9, OS X.3.9, and a mis-partitioned YDL
> slice.  Run ``sudo pdisk`` in a Terminal and have it list (``L``) all
> the partitions.  If your YDL partition's type is listed as
> ``Apple_UFS``, ``Apple_HFS``, or ``Apple_HFSX``, OS [9|X] will try to
> mount it automagically at startup.
>
> The "correct" type is ``Apple_UNIX_SVR2``. Note that changing
> partition types after data has been written to the partition *may*
> involve data destruction.
>
> HTH
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> \_(_)_\  /_(_)_/
>
> On 2008/Jun/11, at 11:46, Sterling Garwood wrote:
>
>> I run both Leopard and YDL 6 on a Powermac ... each is on its own
>> disk.
>> How do people keep the MacOSX system from complaining about the YDL
>> disks and asking the 'reformat, eject, ignore' message every reboot?
>>
>>
>> Stupid, n.:
>> 	Losing $25 on the game and $25 on the instant replay.
>>
>> Sterling Garwood
>> slgarwood at charter.net
>>
>>
>>
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