[HELP] Can't Boot Back to OSX After YDL3 Install & ProblemUpdating pdisk
Natalia Portillo
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri Jun 27 18:38:01 2003
In the terminal output you copies you didnt used pdisk, so I cannot see
what errors does it say.
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> Asunto: Re: RE: [HELP] Can't Boot Back to OSX After YDL3=20
> Install & ProblemUpdating pdisk
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> Hi Natalie,
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> Thanks for your reply.
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> Yes, I know that...was just trying fdisk in order to see if I=20
> could find names of partitions....
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> Any other suggestions?
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> From: Natalia Portillo <iosglpgc@teleline.es>
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> Subject: RE: [HELP] Can't Boot Back to OSX After YDL3 Install=20
> & ProblemUpdating pdisk
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> > Fdisk uses the MBR partition scheme.
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> You MUST use pdisk, pdisk /dev/hda.
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> > En nombre de Mark Srebnik
> > Enviado el: viernes, 27 de junio de 2003 23:36
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> > Asunto: [HELP] Can't Boot Back to OSX After YDL3 Install &=20
> > ProblemUpdating pdisk
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> > Hi all,
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> > First post to this group....could really use someone's help!
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> > Installed YDL3 this morning on the new hard drive I installed on my
> > PMG4. Installed new drive as master and moved my old drive to=20
> > be slave.
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> > Created 2 partitions using Apple Drive Setup so that I could=20
> > use part of
> > drive for Mac stuff.
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> > Then ran YDL installer and DiskDruid to setup partitions for YDL.
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> > Then completed YDL install process and booted OK into YDL3.=20
> > All is well
> > there and I'm emailing from Evolution in YDL.
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> > Problem started when I tried rebooting into OSX10.2.6....
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> > First I see the usual grey screen with Apple icon but then I get a
> > circle with slash through it.
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> > Forget how but I can boot into my OS9 partition on old=20
> drive. However,
> > while I can move the cursor on screen my trackball buttons=20
> don't work
> > and I can't do anything.
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> > Found post from April from Dan Burcaw titled 'Can I get my
> > Apple_partition_map partition back?' and tried following those
> > instructions.=20
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> > However, problem is I can't seem to get proper=20
> identification of drive
> > partition to be updated, in order for pdisk update to take place.
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> > Below is my latest terminal output for review.
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> > You can see that part of problem I think is related to the message=20
> > 'Disk /dev/hda doesn't contain a valid partition table'.=20
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> > Hope someone can please advise....really need to get back=20
> into my OSX
> > partition to do some work!
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> > fdisk: invalid option -- p
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> > Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK Change partition table
> > fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK List partition table(s)
> > fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition size(s) in blocks
> > fdisk -v Give fdisk version
> > Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
> > and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
> > -u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
> > -b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors
> > [root@localhost root]# fdisk -l
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> > Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
> > Units =3D cylinders of 16065 * 512 =3D 8225280 bytes
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> > Disk /dev/hda doesn't contain a valid partition table
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> > Disk /dev/hdb: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
> > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 238216 cylinders
> > Units =3D cylinders of 1008 * 512 =3D 516096 bytes
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> > Disk /dev/hdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
> > [root@localhost root]#
> > [root@localhost root]#
> > [root@localhost root]# /sbin/pdisk hda
> > pdisk: can't open file 'hda' (No such file or directory)
> > [root@localhost root]# fdisk -s
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> > Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK Change partition table
> > fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK List partition table(s)
> > fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition size(s) in blocks
> > fdisk -v Give fdisk version
> > Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
> > and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
> > -u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
> > -b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors
> > [root@localhost root]#
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