Hi,
What kind of partitions do you have on sda? You need one root and one
swap at least.
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:11:46PM +0000, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks to help from this list, I now have my Mac booting
> and starting the installer (via BootX).
>
> My next problem is that the kernel doesn't seem interested
> in recognising the partition table that I create on the
> disk.
>
> I followed Ethan Benson's instructions and partitioned the
> 4Gb disk that I chucked in there, but the kernel appears
> not to be parsing it.
>
> dmesg says:
>
> SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8888924 [4340 MB] [4.3GB]
> SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 1431760 [699 MB] [0.7GB]
> ..
> Partition check:
> sda: sda1
> sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 sdb5 sdb6
>
>
> /proc/partitions confirms this view. Interesting lines:
>
> major minor #blocks name
>
> 8 0 4444462 sda
> 8 1 4441941 sda1
> [sdb snipped]
>
> mac-fdisk will happily display what's on sdb (the MacOS disk)
> and on sda (where Debian will live).
>
> I've tried rebooting and restarting the installer in case the
> kernel thought that something was busy, but it's just the same
> next time.
>
> Anyone willing to offer ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matthew.
>
>
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