On 17/9/99 Paul Mackerras wrote:

No, it needs to be an ext2 partition.  AFAIK the first 1k of an HFS
partition isn't free.

yes it is free, unless you have macos on that same partition then 
there are macos bootblocks there.

dd if=/dev/hda4 of=/tmp/hfsblock bs=1024 count=1
dd if=/dev/hda8 of=/tmp/ext2block bs=1024 count=1

$ cmp /tmp/hfsblock /tmp/ext2block
$

no difference at all.

hda4 is a empty hfs partition with no macos
hda8 is a ext2fs not the root partition and such no boot blocks 
installed (quik or otherwise)



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