On 15/08/01 2:45, "Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 01:43:02AM +0200, pejvan wrote: >> >> Well my problem is that before I installed OS X, everything worked fine, and >> i sure did use my linux and i simply dont want to reinstall it because it >> worked really nice... > > thats why i need as much info as possible from your machine to try and > figure out what games OSX is playing to cause these problems. your > not the first to report fsckage and search-and-destroy-GNU-OSes type > behavior from installing OSX. > >> >> Do you think my bootstrap partition could have been corrupted in some way ? > > mkofboot will repair any such damage. 1.2.4 (in debian sid now) will > even zero out the first 800K of the bootstrap partition to be sure. > > but please send me output from: > > mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda > nvsetenv > mkofboot -f 2>&1 > /etc/yaboot.conf > > only with this info can i even begin to guess what is wrong. my guess > is apple screwed around with the partition ordering, or changed the > type of the bootstrap partition to break it, either of those is > fixable with mac-fdisk and parted. or if your bootstrap partition is > Apple_HFS instead of the correct Apple_Bootstrap it is probably > getting corrupted by MacOS/X OK i just checked, and it seems my bootstrap type has been changed to Apple_HFS, so changing the type of this to Apple_Boostrap should fix everything ? Thanks Pejvan
