2007/6/8, Ennio-Sr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[Sorry for POSSIBLE DUPLICATE] Hi all, I replaced the 3GB HD of my ibook (MacOS9 and Debian (Sarge) ppc happily working on it) with a brand new 80GB HD. I booted from an OS 9 CD, made 4 hfs+ partitions (70 GB reserved for Debian, the other 3 for Mac OS 9, Mac OS X and an Xchange partition), installed Mac OS 9, rebooted and could see that the system was there. Then I rebooted from a _powerpc net-installer_ CD and installed the Debian_40r0-powerpc, re-partitioning the big Debian partition into 13 ext2 parts plus a small Apple_bootstrap one. Added the macos= line in /etc/yaboot.conf, ran ybin and rebooted. Well, at this point I could see the label relating to Mac OS 9 (beside the Linux one) but when I chose it I was presented with the small icon in the middle of a white screen with a flashing question mark in it! What is worst is that when rebooting from the Mac CD, no HFS partition was visible and the only option would be to re-initialize the HD. I ran the full installation process three times (changing the position of the HFS partitions) but, alas, the result was still the same. An fdisk -l /dev/hda shows me that the HFS partitions are there (BTW, they appear as HFS and not HFS+ as chosen when initializing from Mac). Found a similar report on Google, but I have no Mac OS X right now to see if it will be able to recover the Mac os. Any suggestion? May be I should re-install chhosing the old Sarge? Or, perhaps, the 'old glorious' G3 300Mhz cannot master the 80GB hd?
Hi there, Yes this is a weird issue. Maybe is it the hardware of the iBook G3 300 MHz which is unable to recognize the 80 GB hard disk. I've made a page that might by helpful to you, here: http://pierre.baudu.in/ibook/ (This page is about installing Debian 4.0 on my iBook G3) Also, on another Mac, I have encountered a weird problem where, just after having installed Debian 4.0, the machine becomes unbootable, and indeed shows a flashing "?" inside a disk, look at the installation report I made: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422836 (However, the problem happened on an OldWorld Mac, using the BootX bootloader) Hope this could help, Greetings, -- Pierre Bauduin Linux enthusiast since 1996 Linux registered user #64711 Debian GNU/Linux user website: http://pierre.baudu.in/
