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

[nathan r. hruby]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, 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).
> 

Someone more clueful will chime in (PLEASE!) but I think there's a maximum 
partition limit for a drive.  I want to say it's 20 or 17.. (that 
includes diver partitions for os9)  This may be your problem...

> 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.
> 

You should be able to boot the 2nd CD (aka: the Tasty Morsels CD) whihc 
should give you a command prompt/  You would want to stick a zip disk in 
the drive and mount it as /tmp so everything works right.

-n
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