[ydl-gen] Yaboot problems and YDL 4.0.1

[Enda Cronnolly]

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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