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Peter Grehan (grehan) writes:
> 
>  WRT partitions, do you think it would be useful to have them within a
> slice ? I've been thinking about allowing GPT partitions within a
> slice for a while, although it does complicate the loader a bit.

	I don't really know, I assumed that was the way it worked on PPC as
	well as i386.  But considering we don't have the slice restrictions,
	it does make sense to use one partition / slice (as OS X sees it).

	How is it on Alpha ?  If there's a precedent there, it might be the
	way to go.