Not my bad as much as it is my believing and passing on what I was told by an Apple "genius" at the Palo Alto Apple Store at the Jaguar launch event last September. Pardon me. k On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 05:17 AM, Sergei Zak wrote: > Thubten Kunga wrote: > >> This post reminded me that Jaguar MUST be installed on the first >> partition. It's not on some disks. It's on any drive. A genius at the >> Palo Alto Apple Store explained to me that UNIX can only see itself >> to boot when the system is on the first partition. > Not true - I have installed it on second partition. Do you think it > would not detect the situation? It boots off my second volume, indeed! >> I forgot about this until Sensei posted this below. I don't know >> about the size of the partition needing to be 8GB although that's the >> size of mine. > It's the Windows NT limitation (the startup volume must not exceed 8G > and the bootloader files must fit into first 4G of it). >> I think 10GB is better size to try. > I personally love number 14 :) >> You definitely can not and do not want to install OS X on any other >> partition. It Must be the first one. > Sorry to say it but Kunga you got a little mixed up.