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240GB Ipod HDD and Bootable Linux Partition?

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darkenvy:
The title kind of says it all but would it be possible to partition the drive and make it bootable like a bootable flash drive while having the second partition of rock-box unharmed? I don't know what the filesystems would have to be but if you could partition part as ext3 that would be awesome

This would be an awesome use of the space!

saratoga:
You can add a second parition as EXT3 if you want.  Rockbox won't read it though.

darkenvy:
Yea thats perfectly fine. What about making it bootable? This won't interfere with rockbox? I wouldn't imagine it would.

torne:
As long as you leave the Apple firmware partition alone (it's partition 1 but it has type "unused" so partitioning tools have a habit of overwriting its data) it's fine. The OF doesn't care about the boot code in the MBR, it's fine to install a Linux bootloader there.

darkenvy:
Okay so im having a lot of problems partitioning the HDD. I am using gparted and have found that ~80mb hidden partition at the beginning of the drive. It appeared as unpartitioned space. I did not touch this and I resized the ipod partition from the end to allot 20Gigs. Upon finishing I have found that my ipod is not bootable (gives me a connect to itunes message) but when connected to Linux I can mount all my partitions. I cannot mount any partitions in windows or mac.

I have used gparted less than a week ago to resize one of my Linux partitions and I am able to do so without damaging the information on it, but what happened here? Also when I restored the ipod using windows-itunes (so I could install rockbox soon after) I found that itunes didn't just format the partition like I thought it would but the entire disk.

How can I get this done?

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