On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 08:34:53PM +0100, Dave Turner wrote: > >> Wait...your bootstrap partition is 2? How did you partition your > >>hard drive? Did you delete ALL the partitions that were in the > >>original map? I'm no expert by any means, but I do remember clearly > >>that the first eight or so partitions were taken up by hard disk > >>drivers. Perhaps that could be related to the problem? > > >They're only needed for MacOS. > > OK, here's the partition table. > > 1 Apple_partition_map Apple [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800K > 3 Apple_Driver_ATA* Macintosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 4 Apple_Driver_ATA* Macintosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 5 Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 6 Apple_Patches Patch Partition [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 7 Apple HFS 500MB > 8 Apple HFS 1GB > 9 Apple HFS 2GB > 10 Apple HFS 4GB > 11 Apple HFS 7.2GB > 12 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4-ishGB > 13 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250MB > 14 Apple_Free Extra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I thought maybe there might be some issue with the partition being located at the end of a large disk. But I just installed a bootstrap partition at the 37G point on a 40G disk, and it boots fine. > Has anybody got Woody working on a Rev A iMac? I'm pretty sure the one at work is either Rev A or B, it's a 233 with a tray loading CD IIRC. I'll check. What's your /etc/yaboot.conf look like? -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
