Nicolas Kuttler » powerbook http://www.nkuttler.de WordPress Services, IT Services Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:49:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 PPC Mac partition oddity http://www.nkuttler.de/2009/05/29/ppc-mac-partition-oddity/ http://www.nkuttler.de/2009/05/29/ppc-mac-partition-oddity/#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 11:33:07 +0000 nicolas http://www.nkuttler.de//?p=815 I have an old Powerbook and wanted to mount a USB drive I formatted with it on a Linux box. The Linux computer had a custom kernel with mac partition support (CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION). Oddly, the kernel didn’t recognize the partitions on the drive.

Unfortunately the Powerbook’s display is broken and I can’t confirm it uses open firmware, but all sources I found say it does.

So I thought EFI GUID Partition support was not necessary, but it turns out that PPC macs can use that partition type as well, so CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION is necessary.

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