On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:57:26AM -0400, Andreas Wrede wrote:
> I have a PB G3 Series (bronze keyboard) and it can tripple boot
> MacOS9, MacOS10 DR4 and NetBSD 1.5B.
> 
> I used MacOS9's Drive Setup utility to create the the different
> partitions:

Ha, that's the tool I missed. I finally crated the
Apple_UNIX_SVR2 partitions with pdisk, and edited the partition table with
hexedit to set the magic number and flags in the Apple_UNIX_SVR2 blocks.
Not really user fiendly but can be done in a reasonable time :)

> 
> This will result in the following NetBSD diskabel:
> 
> 10 partitions:
> #        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   a:  2174782  9862770     4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl. 10436*- 12738*)
>   b:   648128 12037552       swap                        # (Cyl. 12738*- 13423)
>   c: 12685680        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 13423)
>   d:      512      320    unknown                        # (Cyl.    0*- 0*)
>   e:      512      832    unknown                        # (Cyl.    0*- 1*)
>   f:    65536     1344        HFS                        # (Cyl.    1*- 70*)
>   g:  4897933    66880        HFS                        # (Cyl.   70*- 5253*)
>   h:    16384  4964813    unknown                        # (Cyl. 5253*- 5271*)
>   i:     1024  4981197    unknown                        # (Cyl. 5271*- 5272*)
>   j:  4880549  4982221        HFS                        # (Cyl. 5272*- 10436*)

Hum, on mine the root partition appears as wd0g, wd0a is some mac-specific
partition ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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