Apple Disk labels

[John Summerfied]

Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
> Under Apple MacOS 9 (hfs+) there are 8 required partitions for the
> OpenBoot prom to "see" the disk correctly; I have been placing the FC5
> AppleBoot lable on partition 9 and the rest of the standard install
> into /dev/hda10 (/boot), /dev/hda11 (swap), and /dev/hda12 (/)
> 
> Is there a way to get the partitions onto the disk and not have to
> have the 8 "required" Apple labels?  This is an old iMac with the
> firewire MoBo; I have re-installed from scratch now about 11 times and
> I cannot see any other way to get it to work.

I used to have some 7xxx oldeworlde Powermacs on which I removed all 
Apple partitions and installed Debian. There was no problem in that 
regard with the firmware.


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