[ydl-gen] YDL 6.0 on PM G5: can't boot! help!?!

[Owen Stampflee]

Reformat the ultra0 disk with Mac OS X ensuring it uses an Apple 
partition table and then reinstall YDL6.

The disk probably had a MSDOS partition table on it, and instead of 
reinitializing the disk, it simply added partitions.

Kevin Diggs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	 I have a dual 2.5 GHz G5. It has 2 SATA disks in it. MacOS X is 
> installed on "the lower" disk (slave or second). YDL is installed on the 
> upper disk. I can boot MacOS X on the lower disk with:
> 
> 	boot ultra1:3,\\:tbxi
> 
> If I try to boot Linux (yaboot?) with:
> 
> 	boot ultra0:1,\\:tbxi
> 
> I get:
> 
> warning: sector size mismatch! can't OPEN: ultra0:1,\\:tbxi
> can't open device or file
> 
> The OF version is:
> 
> Apple PowerMac7,3 5.1.8f7  10/26/04
> 
> devalias ultra0 is /ht/pci at 7/k2-sata-root/k2-sata at 0/disk at 0
> devalias ultra1 is /ht/pci at 7/k2-sata-root/k2-sata at 1/disk at 0
> 
> The installer appears to have created an MSDOS style partition table? Is 
> that right? I used install_text for the install. I have YDL 4.0.1 on a 
> GigE that I can boot with:
> 
> boot ultra1:2,\\:tbxi
> 
> with no problems. It brings up yaboot just fine.
> 
> Linux partition is:
> 
> df:
> 
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev                    249104         0    249104   0% /dev
> /tmp/cdrom             3890460   3890460         0 100% /mnt/source
> /tmp/loop0               84160     84160         0 100% /mnt/runtime
> /dev/sda12              505604    200688    278812  42% /mnt/sysimage
> /dev/sda2                77771     16022     57733  22% /mnt/sysimage/boot
> /dev/sda11              505604     55019    424481  12% /mnt/sysimage/var
> /dev/sda8              2030736      3072   1922844   1% /mnt/sysimage/opt
> /dev/sda7              4061540   2929392    922504  77% /mnt/sysimage/usr
> /dev/sda10              505604      2329    477171   1% 
> /mnt/sysimage/usr/X11R6
> /dev/sda3              8123200     18476   7685428   1% 
> /mnt/sysimage/usr/src
> /dev/sda6              8123168    149628   7554248   2% /mnt/sysimage/files
> /dev/sda5              8123168    149628   7554248   2% /mnt/sysimage/home
> /dev                    249104         0    249104   0% /mnt/sysimage/dev
> 
> fstab:
> 
> LABEL=/                 /                       ext2    defaults        1 1
> tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext2    defaults        1 2
> LABEL=/var              /var                    ext2    defaults        1 2
> LABEL=/opt              /opt                    ext2    defaults        1 2
> LABEL=/usr              /usr                    ext2    defaults        1 2
> LABEL=/usr/X11R6        /usr/X11R6              ext2    defaults        1 2
> LABEL=/files            /files                  ext3    defaults        1 2
> LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> LABEL=/usr/src          /usr/src                ext2    defaults        1 2
> LABEL=SWAP-sda9         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> 
> parted /dev/sda print:
> 
> Model: ATA WDC WD5000AAKS-0 (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
> 
> Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
>   1      32.3kB  8225kB  8193kB  primary   hfs          boot
>   2      8225kB  90.5MB  82.3MB  primary   ext2
>   3      90.5MB  8678MB  8587MB  primary   ext2
>   4      8678MB  500GB   491GB   extended
>   5      8678MB  17.3GB  8587MB  logical   ext3
>   6      17.3GB  25.9GB  8587MB  logical   ext3
>   7      25.9GB  30.1GB  4294MB  logical   ext2
>   8      30.1GB  32.3GB  2147MB  logical   ext2
>   9      32.3GB  33.4GB  1077MB  logical   linux-swap
> 10      33.4GB  33.9GB  535MB   logical   ext2
> 11      33.9GB  34.4GB  535MB   logical   ext2
> 12      34.4GB  35.0GB  535MB   logical   ext2
> 
> Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
> 
> kevin
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