On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:36:16PM -0700, ozymandias G desiderata wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 07:24:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > e) Enter mac-fdisk, and here's where the fun begins. If I do an 'i' > > > to reinitialize the partition table and then immediately do a 'w' > > > to write the new partition table, everything's cool. As soon as I > > > try to create any partitions, though, any attempts to write the > > > changed partition table thereafter cause an exception that reads > > > "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer at virtual address". At this > > > point both woody and potato chunder. > > > > just reboot, the partititon table will be fine. bug benh to fix the > > partition table reread ioctl. > > Well, yeah, I'd noticed that the partition table was written just > fine, when I booted from a MacOS install CD and reinitialized the disk > preparatory to giving everything yet another try. The only problem > with this strategy is I don't know _how_ I'm to reboot once I've nuked > the partition tables for the entire disk. Keep a MacOS partition > around until I'm done with the installation? Install from the potato > boot floppies? I guess I'll give the latter a try. > > Thanks for your help. i reccommend netboot. keeping macos around is impossible without keeping all that useless, harmful cruft as well. http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/netboot.html -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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