[ydl-gen] Yaboot problems and YDL 4.0.1

[Owen Stampflee]

I'm not sure if mkofboot will convert the Prep boot partition, but its
worth a shot...

or boot the installer, delete the prep boot partition with anaconda, and
re-create then create a mac boot partition since they're fairly close to
the same size. :)

Cheers,
Owen

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 16:56 +0000, Enda Cronnolly wrote:
> Thanks Joseph,
> 
> 
> > The partition "type" for the boot slice is most likely the problem. You
> > may be able to edit the partition map and change the labels.  Otherwise,
> > you will need to reformat the drive from within YDL.
> 
> Booted from the install CD, and from a virtual console attempted to create 
> the partitions with pdisk Pdisk is getting the size of the disk all wrong, 
> and even at that, if you initialise the partition map and try to write it to 
> disk, I get...
> pdisk: Unable to write block 1
> pdisk: Unable to write blcok 2
> 
> so I think I'll just try again later with another disk, or maybe even the 
> original MacOS disk that is here somewhere.
> 
> > First try the following:
> >
> >        Hold down the option key while cold-booting the MAC. You should
> >        be presented with the option of selecting the boot device.  If a
> >        boot disk icon has a penguin on it, select it and continue.
> 
> Had tried that earlier but no joy....
> 
> 
> Thanks again..
> 
>  -Enda.
> 
> 
> > -Joseph
> >
> > ===============================================================================
> > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 14:39 +0000, Enda Cronnolly wrote:
> > [snip]
> >> OK..... the pdisk pointer seems to point to an issue, could this be that 
> >> the
> >> disk was setup without the use of pdisk, and only setup using diskdruid 
> >> from
> >> the YDL installer, and the partition table, while linux compatible, can't 
> >> be
> >> handled by Open Firmware?
> >>
> >> If so... then is my solution to repartition the disk with pdisk and 
> >> install
> >> again? Is my current partition layout ok for that?
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >>  -Enda.
> >>
> >
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