Re: Apple Powerbook G4 Install report with beta4

[Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch>]

Am Die, den 04.05.2004 schrieb Erik Andersen um 3:04:

> I selected "Erase entire disk" with "All files in one partition".
> The generated partition table had a 32k Apple partition record, a
> 59.4 MB ext3 partition, and a 512 MB swap partition.  No NewWorld
> boot partition was generated, which meant that should I continue
> to install I could not possibly end up with a bootable system...

This is Bug #243253.

> 
> I attempted to add such a partition manually, but for whatever
> reason the installer later gave me a dialog informing me that "No
> hard disks were found which have an "Apple_Bootstrap" partition".
> You must create an 800K partition named "bootstrap", with type
> "Apple_Bootstrap"."
> 
> I tried, but was not able to persuade the installer to accept
> such a partition.
This is probably the effect of Bug #246841. The beta4 installer is
currently unable to create a new Apple_Bootstrap partition which is also
accepted by itself as such.

Thanks for testing

Gaudenz