Re: iBook install: failing to see hard drive
gremio@ai.mit.edu writes:
> Hi Valentin,
>
> > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html
> > (I don't remember exactly, but it seems I've made sort of the same steps
> > order)
>
> in this document, you say about UFS partitions:
It's not my document
I've found it in Internet right after I've installed debian on my
iBook (after spending about a week for that).
>
> # Put those four files into the "root" of your MacOS 9 / MacOS X drive.
> "linux", "yaboot", "yaboot.conf", and "root.bin" should be right
> alongside the Desktop folder (only visible in MacOS X) in the root of
> the drive. (Note: this will not have the desired effect on UFS MacOS X
> partitions, but Apple does not ship MacOS X in that configuration.)
>
> but my configuration happens to be UFS. is there some easy change to the
> boot line, or do I need to start from scratch?
I'm using currently configuration with all three OS installed (MacOS9,
MacOSX, Debian/Linux) and my expirience say that would be better to have
both MacOS9 and MacOSX installed on the HFS/HFS+ partitions... it has
better support in linux kernel (eg. write support from linux)... if
you're interested in, there is my configuration:
# type name size system
/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 31.5k Partition map
/dev/hda2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 27.0k Driver 4.3
/dev/hda3 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 37.0k Driver 4.3
/dev/hda4 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 27.0k Unknown
/dev/hda5 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 37.0k Unknown
/dev/hda6 Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 100.0k Unknown
/dev/hda7 Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 256.0k Unknown
/dev/hda8 Apple_Patches Patch Partition 256.0k Unknown
/dev/hda9 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 800.0k NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hda10 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 128.0M Linux native
/dev/hda11 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 640.0M Linux swap
/dev/hda12 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 lvm0 8.0G Linux native
/dev/hda13 Apple_HFS untitled 2 5.0G HFS
/dev/hda14 Apple_HFS untitled 3 1.9G HFS
/dev/hda15 Apple_HFS untitled 4 2.9G HFS
/dev/hda16 Apple_Free Extra 11.5k Free space
Partitions from hda1 through hda8 was created automagicaly by MacOS
partition tool...
hda9 - bootstrap partiotion described in document
hda10 - my linux root partition
hda11 - my linux swap partiotion
hda12 - my all other linux partitions (I'm using LVM ;) )
hda13 - partition which I'v used for temporary file location when I
installed linux and now I use it as partition accesible from all
OS's installed (it could be used as partition specific for any
OS of cause (for example it could be formated for use under
Linux only))
hda14 - my MacOS9 partition
hda15 - my MacOSX partition
hda16 - created by MacOS partition tool too
> Also, do you know how bleeding edge a kernel I will now need for power
> management to work?
nothing special
all You'll need - well configured kernel (from benh tree for example)
and pmud (Apple PowerBook power management daemon)
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