Re: My Debian Woody installation won't boot
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 08:34:53PM +0100, Dave Turner wrote:
> >> Wait...your bootstrap partition is 2? How did you partition your
> >>hard drive? Did you delete ALL the partitions that were in the
> >>original map? I'm no expert by any means, but I do remember clearly
> >>that the first eight or so partitions were taken up by hard disk
> >>drivers. Perhaps that could be related to the problem?
>
> >They're only needed for MacOS.
>
> OK, here's the partition table.
>
> 1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63@1
> 2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600@30506881 800K
> 3 Apple_Driver_ATA* Macintosh 54@64
> 4 Apple_Driver_ATA* Macintosh 74@118
> 5 Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512@192
> 6 Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512@704
> 7 Apple HFS 500MB
> 8 Apple HFS 1GB
> 9 Apple HFS 2GB
> 10 Apple HFS 4GB
> 11 Apple HFS 7.2GB
> 12 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Linux 9112000@30508481 4-ishGB
> 13 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 512000@29620481 250MB
> 14 Apple_Free Extra 22@40132481
I thought maybe there might be some issue with the partition being located
at the end of a large disk. But I just installed a bootstrap partition
at the 37G point on a 40G disk, and it boots fine.
> Has anybody got Woody working on a Rev A iMac?
I'm pretty sure the one at work is either Rev A or B, it's a 233 with
a tray loading CD IIRC. I'll check.
What's your /etc/yaboot.conf look like?
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*------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------*
| <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> |
| debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> |
| Chris Tillman tillman@voicetrak.com |
| To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) |
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