On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:12:03PM -0500, pstrauss@ln.us.itmasters.com wrote: > Ethan, > I get errors about locating the bootstrap partition. It says i > need to create a 800k type 0x41 partition. My partition is ~ 2meg. Is it > looking for the specified size? > There may be other problems with my partitions, though. This is an > RS/6000 that used to run AIX and fdisk complains about existing AIX > labels. Maybe the labels are confusing yabootconfig too. > I think its worth noting that I can only get this machine to boot off of > the floppy. well i check for a mac partition map signature, and if i don't find it i assume we have msdos disklabels and use fdisk -l if fdisk -l won't work or won't show a `PPC PReP Boot' description for the bootstrap partition i won't find it. if anyone has any suggestions on a better method of finding the partition i like to hear it... but if you have AIX disklabels that would explain the problem, is this standard? is there a fdisk that supports them? and is there a way i can accuratly detect this type of disklabel? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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