On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > 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.
It's the Debian install kernel from /debian/dists/potato/powerpc/powermac/ (or something similar, I forget the exact URL). > > Partition check: > > sda: sda1 > > something is strange here, it sees one partition... > > 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 Will do when I get home tonight. For now, we have: > I made (in order, if I recall correctly): > > 250Mb Swap > 125Mb Root > 125Mb Tmp > 500Mb Var > 2Gb Usr > remainder (around 1.3Gb I think) Home > > And there was the (I think) 32Kb partition map at the > very beginning. Matthew.
