IO Error after V2.2 installation - unable to reinstall V2.1

[René Bourion]

Thanks. I believe that you are referring to my earlier postings.

Getting no reply, I had another look at my setup and I realized that the
order of the partitions was not that recommended by the book; that is to
say, I had put the Mac partitions first and the Linux stuff behind.

I therefore re-initialized the whole disk with the Apple tool and put in the
first place an unallocated space (future place of Linux), which has to be
less than 8 GB for MacOS 9 to be able to boot (I remember seeing this limit
discussed somewhere, but I now have a positive experience of it), and then
the Mac partitions, 5 G HFS+ and 2G HFS.

Finally, I used the GUI installer on the free space and all went well.

This is just my experience; I am by no means sure that my analysis was
correct and that my solution was the right one. Is the order of the
partitions all that important? But who knows?

R.B.

Original message: 

> Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 20:40:15 +0200
> Subject: IO Error after V2.2 installation - unable to reinstall V2.1 -
> Solution
> From: "H.P. Noordam" <bno@mac.com>
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> 
> I saw the following problem on this list:
> 
> After installing 2.2 you are unable to boot on iMac (possible others). A
> I/O error is reported before kernal load etc etc proceed. Also,
> reinstalling V2.1 which worked perfectly before, now fails with the same
> message.
> 
> I had the exact same problem, and found a solution that worked for me.
> 
> If you use the defautl graphical install, partitions are created for
> you. Even on a brand new disk, somehow the installations adds some more
> partitions that are not visible during install. (you WILL see partitions
> created up to /dev/hda8)
> 
> I restarted the installation in text mode, and with more interaction.
> The text mode partition manager allowed removal of ALL partitions, my 3
> and the systems surprise partitions.
> 
> After complinting the text mode install, everything worked fine.
> 
> Hope this is off some help to others.