Must have been something with the buggy graphical installer or my messing with the partitions. I used OSX partitioning tool to partition the HDD (it's piece of crap by the way) and everything is working dual-boot wise now.
Feel like a bit of a moron now! Ananda On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:12:03 +0000 Ananda Samaddar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know what I did wrong. According to some NetBSD documentation I had > a look at, the broken folder icon means that Mac OSX cannot find a bootable > partition. mac-fdisk see the partitions in Debian, but parted does not see > any. Also I booted the OSX installer CD and accessed the disk utility, it > also couldn't see any partitions. Apparently PPC macs store partition maps > on a seperate small partition at the beginning of the disk. Obviously this > must have been corrupted. Is there any way to fix it? > > I've just realised, I was messing about with the graphical PPC installer for > Etch and it messed up on the partition screen several times so I used the > text installer instead. I wonder if this has anything to do with it. I > think I'm going to just reinstall both again and not mess about with the > graphical installer for Etch this time. I'll post the results shortly. > > cheers, > > Ananda > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:38:36 +0100 > Børge Holen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Monday 22 January 2007 19:14, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > On (22/01/07 16:49), Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > > > I am new to the PPC platform after having use either Debian or Ubuntu > > > > on X86 for a while now. I would describe myself as an intermediate > > > > user, I can usually get most things working on my own, but this one > > > > has got me stumped. > > > > > > > > After selecting Mac OSX (10.1 btw) from the Yaboot prompt. The little > > > > Apple face appears but instead of booting normally a broken folder > > > > icon appears and then system appears to hang. > > > > > > > > As I said I'm quite experienced with X86 problems but have had no > > > > experience at all with PPC till about four days ago! I tried google > > > > etc but had no luck. Any help would be appreciated as I don't know > > > > where to start! > > > > > > Try booting with Apple+Option+P+R keys held down. That will reset the > > > PRAM. It may not help but always worth trying before more drastic > > > solutions like reinstalling your OSX system. > > > > This sounds like a bad good idea, I wanna know what went askew... > > I never had this problem, so either this dude went astray with the > > installer, > > or something needs to be fixed > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Clive > > > > > > -- > > > www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... > > > ...strategies for business > > > > -- > > --- > > Børge > > Kennel Arivene > > http://www.arivene.net > > --- > > >
