Subject: Re: Partition Ordering-YDL+Mac OSX
From: Eric D. (liriodendron@mac.com)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 16:13:48 MST
on 26/2/02 12:00, Gordon Neault at gordo-x@shaw.ca wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 09:02 AM, cbsled@ncia.net wrote:
>
>> A caveat on the suggestion on the YDL site to place YDL in front of any
>> Mac OS partitions:
>> It won't work with OSX on certain machines, mine being one of them, of
>> course.
>>
>> See: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106235
>>
>> The OSX installer can't see past the first 8GB on the drive.
>> OS 9.x does not have this problem, and OSX can see partitions past 8GB
>> once installed, so it looks like the limit (bug) is in the installer.
Actually, these computers also won't work with OS 9 if the partition in
question is not wholly in the first 8 GB of the drive. The problem was fixed
with the B&Ws (& it may also have been fixed in the Rev C beige G3). Only
the beige G3s (all incarnations), and the tray-loading iMacs are affected.
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