> Strictly speaking, you don't need the HFS+ "boot partition" at all, 
> since
> you can run the boot program (ofwboot.xcf) from the other HD or from 
> your
> main HFS+ partition.  Just put a single HFS+ partition at the start of 
> the
> drive and leave ofwboot.xcf at the top level (NOT on the desktop, which 
> is
> actually a hidden subfolder of the top level).

Working great. But still in single user mode because :
vi doesn't seem to be present (!!??) in the binary sets and I don't 
know/want to use ed
to configure /etc/defaults/rc.conf and /etc/rc.conf

Where vi has gone ??

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Samuel Hornus