[HELP] Can't Boot Back to OSX After YDL3 Install & ProblemUpdating pdisk

Mark Srebnik yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sat Jun 28 11:02:01 2003


Hi Natalie,

Sorry about that...was in one of my previous posts...there have been too many unfortunately!

Thanks for your help!

Mark

-------Original Message-------
From: Natalia Portillo <iosglpgc@teleline.es>
Sent: 06/27/03 04:39 PM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: RE: RE: [HELP] Can't Boot Back to OSX After YDL3 Install & ProblemUpdating pdisk

> 
> In the terminal output you copies you didnt used pdisk, so I cannot see
what errors does it say.

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com 
> [mailto:yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] 
> En nombre de Mark Srebnik
> Enviado el: s.bado, 28 de junio de 2003 1:24
> Para: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Asunto: Re: RE: [HELP] Can't Boot Back to OSX After YDL3 
> Install & ProblemUpdating pdisk
> 
> 
> Hi Natalie,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> Yes, I know that...was just trying fdisk in order to see if I 
> could find names of partitions....
> 
> Any other suggestions?
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Mark
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Natalia Portillo <iosglpgc@teleline.es>
> Sent: 06/27/03 03:09 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: RE: [HELP] Can't Boot Back to OSX After YDL3 Install 
> & ProblemUpdating pdisk
> 
> > 
> > Fdisk uses the MBR partition scheme.
> 
> You MUST use pdisk, pdisk /dev/hda.
> 
> > -----Mensaje original-----
> > De: yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com 
> > [mailto:yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] 
> > En nombre de Mark Srebnik
> > Enviado el: viernes, 27 de junio de 2003 23:36
> > Para: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> > Asunto: [HELP] Can't Boot Back to OSX After YDL3 Install & 
> > ProblemUpdating pdisk
> > 
> > 
> >       	Hi all,
> > 
> > First post to this group....could really use someone's help!
> > 
> > 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 
> > be slave.
> > 
> > Created 2 partitions using Apple Drive Setup so that I could 
> > use part of
> > drive for Mac stuff.
> > 
> > Then ran YDL installer and DiskDruid to setup partitions for YDL.
> > 
> > Then completed YDL install process and booted OK into YDL3. 
> > All is well
> > there and I'm emailing from Evolution in YDL.
> > 
> > Problem started when I tried rebooting into OSX10.2.6....
> > 
> > First I see the usual grey screen with Apple icon but then I get a
> > circle with slash through it.
> > 
> > Forget how but I can boot into my OS9 partition on old 
> drive. However,
> > while I can move the cursor on screen my trackball buttons 
> don't work
> > and I can't do anything.
> > 
> > Found post from April from Dan Burcaw titled 'Can I get my
> > Apple_partition_map partition back?' and tried following those
> > instructions. 
> > 
> > However, problem is I can't seem to get proper 
> identification of drive
> > partition to be updated, in order for pdisk update to take place.
> > 
> > Below is my latest terminal output for review.
> > 
> > You can see that part of problem I think is related to the message 
> > 'Disk /dev/hda doesn't contain a valid partition table'. 
> > 
> > Hope someone can please advise....really need to get back 
> into my OSX
> > partition to do some work!
> > 
> > fdisk: invalid option -- p
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > 
> > Disk /dev/hda doesn't contain a valid partition table
> > 
> > Disk /dev/hdb: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
> > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 238216 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > 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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