Chris Tillman wrote:
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:30:15PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
I tried the command "boot" by itself, and got an error referencing
ide0/0:12 :thptpt (or something similar)
so on a lark, I tried
boot ide0/@:7
(without the "yaboot" even)
and the Debian installer st
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:30:15PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
>
> I tried the command "boot" by itself, and got an error referencing
> ide0/0:12 :thptpt (or something similar)
> so on a lark, I tried
> boot ide0/@:7
> (without the "yaboot" even)
> and the Debian installer started up. I be
Kent West wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Recap: I haven't been able to start the Debian installation from the
OpenFirmware prompt. I type something like
boot hd:9,yaboot
(where 9 is the MacOS Standard partition that contains the four "boot"
files, including "yaboot"), and I get an error message
Kent West wrote:
Recap: I haven't been able to start the Debian installation from the
OpenFirmware prompt. I type something like
boot hd:9,yaboot
(where 9 is the MacOS Standard partition that contains the four "boot"
files, including "yaboot"), and I get an error message like:
IIRC the Apple_Driver partitions need to be at the beginning of the
disk immediately after the Partition Map.
This may not be relevant to your current problem.
Regards
Clive
I just used Drive Setup to do a Custom Initialization on the drive.
I created 3 partitions: the first one was about 17
Kent West wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Chris Tillman wrote:
Try
doing it the way we say in the installation manual instead, that is,
use Drive Setup from the Mac CD to completely re-do your disk from the
ground up
I just used Drive Setup to do a Custom Initialization on the drive. I
created 3
Kent West wrote:
Chris Tillman wrote:
Try
doing it the way we say in the installation manual instead, that is,
use Drive Setup from the Mac CD to completely re-do your disk from the
ground up
I'm a little confused. I assume by "the installation manual", you mean
the manual found at
http://w
Chris Tillman wrote:
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 05:44:17PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
It feels like OpenFirmware just can't open that partition (or any
partition for that matter). Is there some sort of test to isolate the
problem to either the Linux files or to OpenFirmware/the Mac?
I
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 05:44:17PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> Josh Huber wrote:
>
>
> >
> >I hope that helps...
> >
>
> Yes, it does. Thanks! It doesn't solve my problem, but it helps me to
> understand what's going on.
>
>
> I just wiped all the partitions (first with Disk Setup, then with pd
Josh Huber wrote:
I hope that helps...
Yes, it does. Thanks! It doesn't solve my problem, but it helps me to
understand what's going on.
I just wiped all the partitions (first with Disk Setup, then with pdisk)
except the first 6 or so (the partition map, the Appleboot partition,
the d
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I went back and deleted the partition, and rebooted before
> recreating it; the second "drive" no longer showed up in MacOS9. I
> then recreated the partition again using pdisk and giving the
> partition a new name, and after reboot, the "drive" was there, w
Kent West wrote:
New Information:
As an experiment, I used pdisk to delete the 14th partition, named
"MacShared". I then recreated it with the command:
C 14p 14p MacOS Apple_HFS
and wrote the changes to disk. I then rebooted.
When OS 9 finished booting, I saw the second dis
Chris Tillman wrote:
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 11:24:43PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
Which debian-imac release are you using, the 2.2 or 3.0? Perhaps there's
been some corruption of the yaboot binary or something.
The installation instructions pointed me to a .sit archive at
http://prdownloads.
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 11:24:43PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
>
> Thanks to Chris and Brad for pointing this out. So I reckon that means
> there's no way to distinguish or create an HFS+ partition using pdisk?
Well just by name.
> >Which debian-imac release are you using, the 2.2 or 3.0? Perhaps t
Chris Tillman wrote:
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:21:32PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
At OpenFirmware prompt, I'm typing "boot hd:14,yaboot" and getting
"can't OPEN: 14:hd,yaboot ok".
boot hd:14,yaboot
is the right syntax.
Thanks for the clarification.
This is on a Blue&White G3,
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:21:32PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> At OpenFirmware prompt, I'm typing "boot hd:14,yaboot" and getting
> "can't OPEN: 14:hd,yaboot ok".
boot hd:14,yaboot
is the right syntax.
> This is on a Blue&White G3, 128MB RAM, 6GB drive.
>
> When I began this project, the machi
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:21:32PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> After my first mistake of wiping out the partition table and then having
> to reinstall OS 9, I created a partition table similar to the one above,
> but I had the Apple_Bootstrap partition between 6 and 7 (so it was 6). I
> later moved t
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