YDL fdisk says it can't find hard drive on new dual G4

[Ken Schweigert]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:49:12PM -0700, Grant Chesy wrote:
> The exact error is "no hard disk found"  I am not sure if the yellow dog installer is using fdisk / pdisk or what, but it cannot find a drive.  Yes, I already have the drive partitioned up, with OSX, OS9, a partition reserved for Linux (I assumed I could slice it up later with the fdisk for the linux distribution), and a few extra partions for testing lab images (this is a work machine).
> 
> If you could tell me how to get a command prompt from the install cd, that would be a great help.  Then I could know for sure what the partitioning software was, and know the real messages, and not possibly cooked versions spit out by the installer.
> 

Boot from the Rescue CD and when the bootloader prompt appears,
hit TAB and then select one of the rescue images.

-ken

> I tried the text install, the gui install (resulted in same installer running), tried ctrl-c and ctrl-z to try to get to a shell, with no luck.
> g
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim ODriscoll [mailto:tim@StokePogesWay.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 12:40 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: YDL fdisk says it can't find hard drive on new dual G4
> 
> 
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Grant Chesy wrote:
> > Is there a similar (or completely different) workaround to get YDL
> > installed on this box?
> > 
> 
> What's the exact error fdisk is giving you? I tried installing YDL on my 
> Cube onto a brand new disk, and it complained because the disk needed to 
> have a partition map before fdisk would create any partitions. I used 
> pdisk to create the partition map, then went from there.
> 
> I don't think that relates to your problem though, as I get the impression 
> that you've already installed OSs on this disk, so the partition map 
> should already be there. But my info might help :)
> 
> Cheers, Tim
> 
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-Ken Schweigert, Padawan Network Administrator
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