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.
what kernel? did you compile it yourself? if so it looks very much like forgot to turn on support for mac partition tables. > 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 something is strange here, it sees one partition... > sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4 sdb5 sdb6 sdb seems ok > > /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). post the output of mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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