Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 09:52:45AM +0200, Pejvan wrote: > > ok thanks a lot, I did not knew about all this. Can I ask a question > > that has nothing to do with the bootstrap ? ;) Can you give me some URLs > > about how to initialize the Mac's hardware in order to boot OSes ? (I > > mean programmers docs, for example how to write something like yaboot, > > to boot a non Apple OS) > > you want to learn OpenFirmware, and Forth, which is what OpenFirmware > is implemented in. you will find more useful info on OpenFirmware > from Sun Microsystems then you ever will from apple. also look for > RFC (or whatever it is) 1275 thats the OpenFirmware spec. >
ok thanks for the trick, in fact, i'm already reading the sun stuff ;) so i hope i can then try to make the little kernel we've written in school on my mac, after some porting work... Will those docs learn me how to do this ? > > OK thanks, it seems I cannot do this with pdisk anyway... > > and nothing can be done under MacOS ? > > nothing can be done under macos. mac-fdisk can do it, but the only > way is by deleting and recreating the partition, if you do this > carefully and verify what you did before wrting the table this is > usually safe. i would only do it with the mac-fdisk in woody though, > not potatos and certainly not LinuxPPC's. just use `d' to delete it, > then `b' to recreate in the same starting block. > ok i'll have to try other solutions then, i dont wanna erase the bootstrap, or erase any partition on my drive, i've had too many troubles with that about 2 or 3 months ago... > if you are really brave use a hexeditor on /dev/hda1 ;-) just change > the Apple_HFS to Apple_Bootstrap. > ok that's probably what i'll have to do ;) > > 'cause I dont have the debian isos whith me, and I cannot download > > anything... so no apt-get for me :-((((( A friend told me he can give a > > his mandrakePPC bootable CDs, is there a way to fix my problem with that > > disc ? > > mandrake may very well have parted on thier CD, i think that may be > what they use as a backend to thier partitioner. > ok, i'll cross my fingers and hope i'll be able to fix it with de mandrake's CD
