mounting hfs+ partitions in yellowdog, and vice versa

[Dan Burcaw]

Fdisk is for PC's only!!!!!  Please use 'pdisk' on Apple machines.


On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 05:13, Richard.Gill@math.uu.nl wrote:
> > My advice is to reinstall it completely, compared to what some
> > people on this list have gone through to get YDL to even boot,
> > you've got it easy. Let us know how your video configuration goes.
> 
> I followed Norberto's advice, started over, read the manual,
> and did it by the book. This email comes from an iBook 2usb 14"
> dual boot YDL/Mac OSX. Things are working really well now, thanks!
> 
> But I still have a problem concerning fdisk -l, can if be fixed?
> Does it matter?
> 
> This time I partitioned with free space ahead of a Mac OSX
> partition, and I took YDL's automatic "install in free space"
> option. There are no problems anymore mounting swap during startup.
> But fdisk -l still doesn't work:
> 
> [root@heblos root]# fdisk -l
> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77520 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
> Disk /dev/hda doesn't contain a valid partition table
> 
> Regarding video (first time I couln't start X windows):
> this time I took more notice when the installation asked about
> my monitor. The first time I had quickly taken what appeared to
> be a default option but this time I took a good look at what was
> on offer. In the long list there is also "Apple" and under apple,
> one can find iBook2 12. I guessed this would also work for iBook2 14
> and it did.
> 
> I just wanted to remark here (for the guys at Terrasoft!)
> this is the FIRST time for me that during a linux installation
> on a very standard and common machine, the good monitor was
> not chosen automatically for me. And in the last year I've done
> about 10 installs of various distro's on various machines.
> It's made careless...
> 
> Richard
> 
> PS. regarding the fdisk -l problem:
> parted is able to see the partitions this is what it tells me:
> 
> [root@heblos root]# parted
> (parted) print
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38154.375 megabytes
> Disk label type: mac
> Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Name                  Flags
> 1          0.000      0.031              Apple
> 2          0.031      0.058              Macintosh
> 3          0.059      0.085              Macintosh
> 4          0.086      0.113              Macintosh
> 5          0.113      0.140              Macintosh
> 6          0.141      0.390              Macintosh
> 7          0.391      0.640              Macintosh
> 8          0.641      0.890              Patch Partition
> 9          0.891      1.890  hfs         untitled              boot
> 12         1.891   8296.625  ext3        untitled
> 13      8296.625   9576.312  linux-swap  swap                  swap
> 10      9576.312  12375.281  hfs         bridge
> 11     12375.281  38154.371  hfs         heblos
> 
> Should I be concerned that fdisk -l doesn't work? Can it be fixed?
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