Installing on Quicksilver, drive problems

[bruce woller]

Hello Ben:
The original YDL 3.0 CD ROM set had a problem installing to machines 
with multiple HDDs.  I had similar problems.  The thread in this list 
"can i get my Apple_partition_map back" (starting in the April 
archives) chronicles this problem - including a work around supplied by 
Dan Burcaw of TerraSoft.  I ended up unplugging the data cables to all 
drives except the drive on which I was installing YDL.  After a 
successful install I re-attached the drives and all went smoothly.

Regards,
Bruce
On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 09:07  PM, Ben Snitkoff wrote:

> I have a 1 GHz DP Quicksilver, upon which I am trying to install 
> Yellow Dog 3.0. I have a rather unique problem though, and as I have 
> quite a bit of Linux experience I brought my question here rather than 
> to the newbie list.
>
> I have a 30 GB drive for Yellow Dog and the stock 80 GB for OS X. I 
> already have OS X installed on the 80, and I have the 30 as the master 
> drive, at the request of the Yellow Dog Installation Guide.
>
> Mid last month I tried, for two weeks, to get Yellow Dog installed 
> successfully, but I continually ran into the same problem. When I 
> would install Yellow Dog after installing OS 9 and OS X, the Yellow 
> Dog Installer would make my OS X partition not work. I'll try to be 
> more specific:
>
> I would re-boot after finishing the installation and yaboot would come 
> up, when I pressed 'X' it would bring up the grey screen and the 10.2 
> apple in the middle with the spinning rheostat  (is there a better 
> word for that thing), and it would continue that for a few minutes, 
> then kernel panic.
>
> As a result of this, it also overwrote part of my 20 GB Drive on a 
> separate ATA controller (Sonnet), upon which I kept my back-ups of 
> data. So I've lost a lot of data out of this too. I was wondering, 
> since I know that my OS X partition is hdb9 could I unplug my OS X 
> drive, install linux, plug it back in and edit yaboot.conf?
>
> Has anyone had a similar problem and a resolution?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
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