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Re: bootstrap partition not found



[Please keep this on the mailing list. I can't deal with everything
myself.]

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 07:58:40PM +0200, Arnaud Kelbert wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> >What does 'grep yaboot-installer: /var/log/syslog' say? It should
> >have  a partition table dump, to start with, plus perhaps some other
> >information
> 
> Well, I cannot save the result but it says that my bootstrap partition
> is ext2 but a mac-fdisk -l  says it is an Apple_Bootstrap partition.
> 
> should you need more details I can write it down and type it, but it  
> seems that it cannot recognize my partition as Apple_Bootstrap but  
> ext2.

I'd like those details, please, yes.

> NB. I downloaded the iso from :
> http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/beta4/ 
> sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso

If you created the partition with the partitioning UI in that release at
any point, it's known to be broken.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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