Re: yaboot/openfirmware question [again]
On 15/08/01 2:45, "Ethan Benson" <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 01:43:02AM +0200, pejvan wrote:
>>
>> Well my problem is that before I installed OS X, everything worked fine, and
>> i sure did use my linux and i simply dont want to reinstall it because it
>> worked really nice...
>
> thats why i need as much info as possible from your machine to try and
> figure out what games OSX is playing to cause these problems. your
> not the first to report fsckage and search-and-destroy-GNU-OSes type
> behavior from installing OSX.
>
>>
>> Do you think my bootstrap partition could have been corrupted in some way ?
>
> mkofboot will repair any such damage. 1.2.4 (in debian sid now) will
> even zero out the first 800K of the bootstrap partition to be sure.
>
> but please send me output from:
>
> mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda
> nvsetenv
> mkofboot -f 2>&1
> /etc/yaboot.conf
>
> only with this info can i even begin to guess what is wrong. my guess
> is apple screwed around with the partition ordering, or changed the
> type of the bootstrap partition to break it, either of those is
> fixable with mac-fdisk and parted. or if your bootstrap partition is
> Apple_HFS instead of the correct Apple_Bootstrap it is probably
> getting corrupted by MacOS/X
OK i just checked, and it seems my bootstrap type has been changed to
Apple_HFS, so changing the type of this to Apple_Boostrap should fix
everything ?
Thanks
Pejvan
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