On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 01:43:02AM +0200, pejvan wrote: > > Well my problem is that before I installed OS X, everything worked fine, and > i sure did use my linux and i simply dont want to reinstall it because it > worked really nice... thats why i need as much info as possible from your machine to try and figure out what games OSX is playing to cause these problems. your not the first to report fsckage and search-and-destroy-GNU-OSes type behavior from installing OSX. > > Do you think my bootstrap partition could have been corrupted in some way ? mkofboot will repair any such damage. 1.2.4 (in debian sid now) will even zero out the first 800K of the bootstrap partition to be sure. but please send me output from: mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda nvsetenv mkofboot -f 2>&1 /etc/yaboot.conf only with this info can i even begin to guess what is wrong. my guess is apple screwed around with the partition ordering, or changed the type of the bootstrap partition to break it, either of those is fixable with mac-fdisk and parted. or if your bootstrap partition is Apple_HFS instead of the correct Apple_Bootstrap it is probably getting corrupted by MacOS/X -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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