YDL Installation onto Mac OS X (HFS+) partitioned Drive: YDL disk icon disappears, unmounted and unseen.

[Frederick C.Lee]

Based on the Installation Program, all that was needed were 3 disks 
since I'm stalling the basic desktop system (vs server, etc.).

The following describes my machine:

Machine Model:	Power Mac G4
   CPU Type:	PowerPC G4  (2.9)
   Number Of CPUs:	1
   CPU Speed:	467 MHz
   L2 Cache (per CPU):	1 MB
   Memory:	512 MB
   Bus Speed:	133 MHz
   Boot ROM Version:	4.2.8f1

The YDL version is: 4.0.1.

The Installation program appeared to be satisfied after the 3rd disk 
and did an auto-boot.   The rest is history.
My question is: perhaps the Mac didn't see the 1 MB Apple Boot drive 
that was supposed to have been created during the installation process. 
   Or perhaps such a boot HD wasn't created.
How would I know and, are there other logical explanations?

I the meantime, I guess I have to start all over again.

Ric.

On Mar 17, 2005, at 8:23 AM, Derick Centeno wrote:

> According to what I've read regarding YDL 4.0 you need all FOUR (4) 
> discs for installation, not 3.  If you are using YDL 3.0 instead which 
> does use only 3 disks for installation, that would explain a lot of 
> your difficulty.
>
> However, YDL 3.0 is perfectly fine for Old World systems, but OS X may 
> not work well on systems slower than 500MHz (the speed at which most 
> Old World systems operate).
>
> Best wishes...
>
> On Mar 17, 2005, at 10:54 AM, Frederick C.Lee wrote:
>
>> Greetings:
>> 	I have multiple hard drives, one is HFS+ (w/out journaling) split 
>> between Jaguar and YDL.  The YDL partition has about 20 GB.   I've 
>> ran thru the YDL manual-installation process and was sure to create a 
>> 1 MB Apple boot drive and set the target HD at the root '/' directory 
>> per instructions.   I did the custom install of options and used the 
>> first 3 disk for installation.
>>
>> 	At the end, the installer said 'congrats' and rebooted.   What I got 
>> was the default Jaguar boot (the second partition).
>>
>> The result:
>> 	1) The Linux (YDL)  HD is not visible on the desktop; nor can I see 
>> it under the System Profiler.
>> 	2) The Disk Utility does see the YDL disk as a generic disk with the 
>> name 'disk0s3';   *** Not Mounted ***.
>>
>>
>>
>> Question:  How can I make the YDL disk mountable and selectable; and 
>> hence BOOTABLE at startup?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ric.
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