Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:02:01 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBook G4 and FreeBSD 9.0-RC2: unable to create four slices on hard drive? Message-ID: <20111117180201.6f745c40.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20111117173703.3c633777.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20111116224604.6403be5a.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <4EC4D537.4050704@FreeBSD.org> <4EC5279F.6020608@freebsd.org> <20111117173703.3c633777.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:37:03 +0100 Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:26:23 -0600 > Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > APM partition maps have a preprogrammed max size -- Apple's Disk Utility > > often sets it to a very small number (4) when making disks with only one > > partition. To fix it, you need to reformat the drive completely. > > Crap. No way to fix the problen without reformatting? What happens if I try to add more partitions in > Apple's Disk Utility? > Must be tested. BRB No, that didn't work either (I put the iBook in firewire mode and used the PowerBook again). Disk Utility claimed "a partitioning error" or something like that when I tried to add another partition. -- Torfinn
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