Bug#137575: boot-floppies: [powerpc] mac-fdisk hangs
"Chris Tillman" <tillman@voicetrak.com> writes:
> > I'm installing on a powerpc G3 (Pismo, PowerBook). While partitioning
> > with mac-fdisk I got all the way down to writing the partition table and
> > then the system hung. That last thing I did before it hung is answer
> > 'yes' to "Are you sure you want to do this?". Then it said something
> > like 'Successfully wrote partition table'. No response (I don't know
> > how to find the virtual consoles, alt, option etc. combinations didn't
> > yield anything.) for a few minutes. I power cycled and the partition
> > table had written fine so I continued with the install.
> >
> > -David
>
> This has been reported several times during the last year. But no one with
> a failing machine has ever been willing/able to track it down. It's never
> failed this way for me, but I recall 3 or 4 other reports.
Shouldn't this bug be reassigned to the kernel-image or mac-fdisk or
something? Can someone do that?
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...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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