I definitely agree with you there. However, there are these ridiculous people that insist on installing the latest linux variety on a piece of hardware they own.

Also divi2109 needs it for a hardware something or other.

Yes, that is what I thought. There are definitely different options in disk utility on tiger as opposed to leopard. I am working on leopard but can boot up a tiger machine. One thing is for sure UFS is not going to get you anywhere. What you need to start is a MSDOS vfat partition to then slice up for linux. I seem to remember trying this in Tiger and having some issues with the vfat file system. I will go up and boot the tiger system and see for myself.

In Tiger there is an option for a MS-DOS file system partition.

See this screen shot

Attachment 3217

:o that was embarrassing. i am erasing the drive in MS-DOS format. that is what brings that menu on in partition tab.

Yes, also a little confusing is that you need to click on "Volume Scheme" to change order of things.


I have no idea what that means. Please clarify. No offense.

/dev/disk2
#: type name size identifier
0: GUID_partition_scheme *298.1 GB disk2
1: EFI 200.0 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS Untitled 1 99.2 GB disk2s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data UNTITLED 2 99.3 GB disk2s3
4: EFI 200.0 MB disk2s4
5: Linux LVM 99.0 GB disk2s5

didnt work still.

should i try creating a custom layout in the fedora installation.

Maybe you should. Other wise I would use disk2s3. Custom layouts are beyond me.

please type this into terminal and then paste the results
diskutil info /dev/disk2s3
diskutil info /dev/disk2s5

BTW why did you omit this from your last post? Without the output from the above command there is no way to tell if you have the partitions right.

I did not think Disk Utility would create 2 efi partitions. I managed to do this in ipartition but wonder how you did it with disk util.