Bug#258352: can't partition disk on G5

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 05:41:52PM -0700, Brian wrote:
> Package: installation-reports
> Version: 20040704
> 
> I used .../20040708/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso

What's the bit you've elided with "..."? This is rather crucial ...

> There's a problem with partitioning the disks.  It seems
> like some options are missing from this screen.  No
> partitions appears.  Switching over to another console
> i tried to fire up fdisk... i mean mac_fdisk or whatever.
> It couldn't find device files.  In fact i couldn't find
> any device files for disks at all.
> 
> Also none of the sata modules were loaded.  There's about
> 6 of them.  Don't know which ones to load, so i just loaded
> all of them.

All this most likely indicates that your kernel and modules are out of
sync.

> And that's where i am.  I'm not sure what parameters to
> give mknod.

Red herring :-)

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]