mac-fdisk and 0x8e partitions for LVM
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To reiterate: I don't see any solution without making LVM accept Apple partition maps in the first place. Which part of LVM checks the partition type? Can you show me some sample code?
Unfortunately I'm no hacker, I am just trying to use LVM on the
PowerMac (OldWorld, beige G3). So I can't show you source code. This evening when I get back home I can take note of the error messages and send them, but to sum it up I tried everything under the Sun, and none could mark a partition as LVM type, not even parted which does uses names instead of hexadecimals.
parted should indeed use names on Apple partitioned disks; LVM (from what I gather) doesn't cope with names here.
Sending the error messages (with comments on which tool produces them) would help.
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I tried even to mark a partition as undefined with mac-fdisk, but then
vgcreate fails, even if pvcreate works.
You didn't answer my implied question: do you need to keep the Apple partition format, (f.e. because you need to keep MacOS on the machine)?
And, out of interest: how do you boot the oldworld G3? quik, or floppy boot?? Can quik do dual booting on such a box?
Michael