> We needed quite a while to install potato on the iMac. Basically the > problem seems to be incorporated in mac-fdisk. It partitioned the > harddisk according to the needs, but afterwards the install script could > not initialize and activate those partitions (We used option C to do > so). In the end we used "Laufwerke konfigurieren" (the MacOS tool) to > partition the harddisk. From that point on it worked out.
I'd need a dump of the partition table (from both tools, preferably) to tell what's gone wrong. Unless you had a MacOS partition from the same disk mounted while partitioning the disk - in that case, the partition table can't be reread by the kernel. Michael