Re: Mac partitioning probs
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > My next problem is that the kernel doesn't seem interested
> > in recognising the partition table that I create on the
> > disk.
>
> what kernel? did you compile it yourself? if so it looks very much
> like forgot to turn on support for mac partition tables.
It's the Debian install kernel from
/debian/dists/potato/powerpc/powermac/ (or something similar,
I forget the exact URL).
> > Partition check:
> > sda: sda1
>
> something is strange here, it sees one partition...
> > mac-fdisk will happily display what's on sdb (the MacOS disk)
> > and on sda (where Debian will live).
>
> post the output of mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda
Will do when I get home tonight.
For now, we have:
> I made (in order, if I recall correctly):
>
> 250Mb Swap
> 125Mb Root
> 125Mb Tmp
> 500Mb Var
> 2Gb Usr
> remainder (around 1.3Gb I think) Home
>
> And there was the (I think) 32Kb partition map at the
> very beginning.
Matthew.
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