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 > >I even suspect the same would happen on i386.
 >
 > No, it isn't.

  OK, I'm happy to stand corrected.

> probably because GEOM thinks that something else has ad1s5 open 
> still.  Might be a bug in the ppc libdisk bits maybe?

  More likely the GEOM apple partition code. Perhaps a reference count 
being held when it shouldn't. But it's all moot until the loader has 
support for a partitioning scheme - 'auto' will be disabled.

  So John when are you going to install on your Powerbook ? :)

later,

Peter.