On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
This did exactly the trick. Many, many thanks to all
who helped.
Matthew.
At 05:02 -0900 3/5/2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
you never need MacOS. if you don't mind trashing any mac partition
table you have attempted to put on there this will do:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
that will remove an x86 partition table completely. it will also ruin
a mac partiti
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 07:22:50AM -0600, Kevin van Haaren wrote:
> Actually I may be having this problem with a disk I'm monkeying
> around with right now. Is there a way to wipe the x86 partition from
> Linux or do I need to initialize it in MacOS first?
you never need MacOS. if you don't m
At 03:29 -0900 3/5/2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
this is a long shot but did this disk used to have a x86 partition
table on it? i am not certain that mac-fdisk zeros out the first
block, and the way mac partition tables are structured its actually
possible to have both a x86 partition table and a m
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 01:11:55PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > My next problem is that the kernel doesn't seem interested
> > in recognising the partition table that I create on the
> > disk.
>
> Did that disk have a DOS partition table on it before? I've had to erase
> the first few megs of
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:48:30AM +, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> > post the output of mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
> Will do when I get home tonight.
this is a long shot but did this disk used to have a x86 partition
table on it? i am not certain that mac-fdisk zeros out the first
block, and the w
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > My next problem is that the kernel doesn't seem interested
> > in recognising the partition table that I create on the
> > disk.
>
> Did that disk have a DOS partition table on it before? I've had to
> erase the first few megs of a disk in order to g
> My next problem is that the kernel doesn't seem interested
> in recognising the partition table that I create on the
> disk.
Did that disk have a DOS partition table on it before? I've had to erase
the first few megs of a disk in order to get it to honor the Mac partition
table instead of the ol
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > My next problem is that the kernel doesn't seem interested
> > in recognising the partition table that I create on the
> > disk.
>
> what kernel? did you compile it yourself? if so it looks very much
> like forgot to turn on support for mac partition t
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Taro Fukunaga wrote:
> What kind of partitions do you have on sda? You need one root and one
> swap at least.
I made (in order, if I recall correctly):
250Mb Swap
125Mb Root
125Mb Tmp
500Mb Var
2Gb Usr
remainder (around 1.3Gb I think) Home
And there was the (I think) 32Kb pa
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:11:46PM +, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks to help from this list, I now have my Mac booting
> and starting the installer (via BootX).
>
> My next problem is that the kernel doesn't seem interested
> in recognising the partition table that I create on the
>
Hi,
What kind of partitions do you have on sda? You need one root and one
swap at least.
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 09:11:46PM +, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks to help from this list, I now have my Mac booting
> and starting the installer (via BootX).
>
Hi,
Thanks to help from this list, I now have my Mac booting
and starting the installer (via BootX).
My next problem is that the kernel doesn't seem interested
in recognising the partition table that I create on the
disk.
I followed Ethan Benson's instructions and partitioned the
4Gb disk that I
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