IBook G4 and FreeBSD 9.0-RC2: unable to create four slices on hard drive?

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:37:03 +0100
Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:26:23 -0600
> Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > APM partition maps have a preprogrammed max size -- Apple's Disk Utility 
> > often sets it to a very small number (4) when making disks with only one 
> > partition. To fix it, you need to reformat the drive completely.
> 
> Crap. No way to fix the problen without reformatting? What happens if I try to  add more partitions in
> Apple's Disk Utility?
> Must be tested. BRB

No, that didn't work either (I put the iBook in firewire mode and used the PowerBook again).
Disk Utility claimed "a partitioning error" or something like that when I tried to add another partition.
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Torfinn