Installing YDL on PC-partitioned HD

[Dan Burcaw]

> Had an interesting experience today.  I replaced a defective hard drive in
> an iMac DV with another drive I had lying around.
> 
> Did an install from YDL 3.0 install CD's, and everything went fine, BUT, now
> it won't boot from the HD.  I can boot from the CD using:
> 
> linux rescue root=/dev/hda2
> 
> and everything works OK, but I can't run pdisk.  fdisk works fine, and shows
> /dev/hda1 as bootable (this is the Apple boot partition).
> 
> Just wondering if there is any way to fix this situation without doing a
> complete reinstall (after initializing the drive for Apple).

No.. the problem is.. Apple-formatted drives have the actual partition_map
entry as the first partition (e.g. /dev/hda1).  So, if you've got some 
other partition in the '1 spot'... this drive won't terribly useful on 
your Mac.

-Dan