A clean install to an empty hard drive (no partition table) worked fine, using the default partitioning. It created a PReP boot partition and all was well. Reinstalling fails if I let it do its default partitioning -- I have to choose 'custom' and then manually delete the 'hfs' partition and create it again as PReP.
Detect of PReP partitions tend to be a bit of ugliness given that it's not really any special filesystem type. What type of partition table does the Maple use and how is the PReP partition marked (if at all)?
PReP boot has its own partition type -- type 0x41. I don't think any machine which uses PReP partitions uses anything but MS-DOS partition tables. This one looks like this: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1 8001 41 PPC PReP Boot /dev/sda2 2 14 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 15 9729 78035737+ 8e Linux LVM
Okay, that matches what other things do. Which gets rid of my obvious reason for it to be busted. Will need more looking to say what's going on
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