On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:25:44PM -0800, Gordon Paynter wrote: > I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have for me: after exiting mac-fdisk I got > a "Kernel Panic: Exception in kernel pc signal 4" message and had to this is a common and rare problem. (heh) > reboot with the downloaded woody yaboot/kernel/etc. I installed > twice, and this happened both times (someone else told me this > happened to them with an earlier white iBook). Luckily for me, the > Debian kernel, and yaboot, and so on, were still on my MacOS parttion > (formerly hd:10, now hd:14); if I had put them on the new Debian > partition, I would have had to download them again. it doesn't really matter which partition you temporarily bootstrap yaboot from, just so its not UFS. > > Two things you might to explicitly warn people about: > > Once you've set up the MacOS partitions with the "Apple Drive Setup" > tool you must NOT alter your HFS partitions from mac-fdisk (or they > will no longer be working HFS partitions). there shouldn't be any need to. > Once you have created your Linux partitions in mac-fdisk you must > NOT use the "Apple Drive Setup" tool because it will take one look > at your drive, decide it is corrupt, and the only thing it can do > for you is to wipe your whole hard disk and start over. really? i had not observed this behavor, it must be something new since i have not used macos since 8.6. perhaps apple is taking a more aggressive approach to destroying unauthorized GNU installations on thier hardware. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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