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Re: Unable to boot



On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:33:23PM -0500, Max DiOrio wrote:
> Well, the debian video=ofonly worked and got me to the installer, but now I
> have a new problem partitioning.
> 
> I select partition hard disk.  Select /dev/hda my only hard drive
> And then I'm taking straight to the "Missing Boot Strap Partition" dialog
> without ever entering the partitioning program.
> 
> If I press <yes> on that screen repeatedly, I'm able to see the following
> error flash:
> 
> /sbin/mac-fdisk: 1:Syntax error: "(" unexpexted
> 
> Looks like the installer is passing a bad param to the mac-fdisk program.
> Any suggestions on this problem, or should I just try to install Potato and
> give up on Woody, which I really don't want to do.
> 
> ~Max
> 

This is a known problem, unfortunately. The mac-fdisk in that release
was corrupted. Browse the list archives for the past week or so for
possible solutions, hopefully a new version will be released within a
few days.

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