Bug#248116: Problem setting up NewWorld boot partition on iBook G4
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 03:01:09PM +0200, Håvard Korsvoll wrote:
> I then erased partition #7 and let partman auto-create my partitions (/
> and /home) there. Resulting in this table:
> IDE1 master - 30.0 GB TOSHIBA MK3021GAS
> #1 32.2 kB Apple
> 134.1 MB FREE SPACE
> #3 12.5 GB hfs+ Apple_HFS_Un
> #4 8.9 MB hfs+ eXternal boo
> #5 6.1 GB Apple_UFS_Un
> #6 8.9 MB hfs+ eXternal boo
> #2 3.1 GB ᛋ ☺ ext3 untitled /
> #7 7.7 GB ☺ ext3 untitled /home
> #8 391.5 MB ☺ swap swap swap
>
> I then choosed "Finish partitioning and write changes to disk"
>
> I then got a message about
> "No NewWorld partition was found. The yaboot boot loader requires an
> Apple_Bootstrap partition at least 820KB in size."
This is bug #243253.
> I then went back to the partition menu and made a NewWorld partition of 2 MB
> in the FREE SPACE between #1 and #3.
> For usage method a choosed "Use the partition as a NewWorld boot partition",
> and I called the partition: Apple_Bootstrap
>
> The partitiontable was now like this:
> IDE1 master - 30.0 GB TOSHIBA MK3021GAS
> #1 32.2 kB Apple
> #9 1.9 MB ᛋ ☻ boot Apple_Bootst
> 132.2 MB FREE SPACE
> #3 12.5 GB hfs+ Apple_HFS_Un
> #4 8.9 MB hfs+ eXternal boo
> #5 6.1 GB Apple_UFS_Un
> #6 8.9 MB hfs+ eXternal boo
> #2 3.1 GB ᛋ ☺ ext3 untitled /
> #7 7.7 GB ☺ ext3 untitled /home
> #8 391.5 MB ☺ swap swap swap
>
> When I finished the partitoning I still got the message "No NewWorld partition
> was found."
This is bug #246841, fixed in partman-newworld trunk but not yet
uploaded.
> I started the base system installation. That went fine. But "Install yaboot on
> a hard disk" failed of course. I got the message:
> «No hard disk were found which have an "Apple_Bootstrap" partition. You must
> create an 800K partition named "bootstrap", with type "Apple_Bootstrap".»
>
> This gave inconsistent information related to the previous message. Here it
> stands that the partition should be named "bootstrap", that was not mentioned
> before.
To my knowledge, the name is not actually important: mkofboot sets the
filesystem label itself, and I don't believe that whatever parted does
is important. I've removed the mention of it in yaboot-installer.
> The size should be 800K, last time it was at least 820 KB,
partman-newworld 3 included a change from "800KB" to "820KB", on the
grounds that partman uses metric multipliers. Since this has caused
confusion more than once, I've changed both partman-newworld and
yaboot-installer to say "819200 bytes".
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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