On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 21:54, Andrew Robinson wrote: You should be able to boot off of a Linux CD and use pdisk to change the partition without having any impact on the other partitions. I use to do this all the time with my LinuxPPC 2000 install CD (the one that booted into WindowMaker) - but any Linux install CD that gives you a shell should allow you to. In fact - I have even modified the partition map of disks with mounted partitions from within Linux - but pdisk in OS X is more restricting in that respect. > > I'm late to this thread so I hope I'm not spewing nonsense. I have a > similar problem with LinuxPPC on my Mac clone. Turns out I forgot to set > the partition id to Linux swap (82?). I'm afraid to try to set it now > because I don't want to mess up my Mac partitions. So I have to run > mkswap and swapon when I boot into LinuxPPC. > > HTH, > > Andrew Robinson -- Cheap Linux CD's - http://mpeters.us/linux/
