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10.4: Create multi-partition Boot Camp disks
Authored by: mwalles on Apr 17, '06 12:06:37PM

Open Disk Utility
- Select the Drive you want to reformat
- Click on the "Partion" tab
- There will be an "Options" button
- Under that should be three options:
--- GUID Partition Table
--- Apple Partition Map
--- Master Boot Record
- Select GUID Partition Table

Click on "OK" and format the drive from there.



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10.4: Create multi-partition Boot Camp disks
Authored by: sjonke on Apr 17, '06 07:20:05PM

Thanks. A related question: can you partition a PowerPC Mac's boot drive this way, or must you stick with "Apple" format? If I can switch to GUID and get reformat-less drive partitioning/resizing, I would like to do that.

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10.4: Create multi-partition Boot Camp disks
Authored by: aqsalter on Apr 17, '06 08:25:06PM

short answer:
no

:)

The GPT partition format is only readable by Intel Macs, because it's an Intel format spec (although released as a standard I believe).



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10.4: Create multi-partition Boot Camp disks
Authored by: boli on Apr 18, '06 01:52:34AM
well, on my PPC mac (quad G5) i could. i could even boot off it (only when Mac OS X v10.4.6 was installed on it, with an earlier version it didn't work), but according to replies to my comments by sphns at macgeekery and afp548 only few PPC macs can boot off a "GPT disk", most can't.

however, the 'diskutil resizeVolume' did not work on the "GPT disk", which according to another reply by the same person is normal: it only works on intel macs. (this was my main reason to use GPT)

additionally, using GPT created a 200 MB partition called "EFI" (invisible from the GUI). so for now i have no reason to use GPT on my PPC mac, even though i could.

fds copied sphns's comments over, see here

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