Re: ibook + USB hard drive = yaboot failure
Thanks for the advice. For the time, I am travelling all summer and will be
without my apple rescue disk for another month or so. Is there another way
to "bless" the Apple partition?
In the mean time, I'm trying to get my synaptics touchpad detected and the
2.6.15-1-powerpc kernel booted. Stand by for more potential questions....
Thanks,
Michael
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 07:56 am, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
> [Grrr .. sorry for following-up my own post]
>
> On 7/12/06, Chasecreek Systemhouse <chasecreek.systemhouse@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2) Some boot managers expect it to be separate and formated as ext2
> > (as opposed to ext3) -- however these days yaboot can see the boot
> > software even inside / when formated at ext3.
> >
> > On PowerPC (read Apple) hard drives it must be formated as HFSl on
> > Ultrasparcs it must be formated as a recognized SUN Disk Label (which
> > I give again, as an example.)
>
> This is the way the drive *must* be laid out before the OpenFirmware
> Boot manager will "see" it (I list it the way I know it will always
> work for *me* but YMMV because while I have used various types of
> 'linux' on a couple hundred Macs I realise that there can still be
> "gotchas" floating around, and people's experience levels vary a great
> deal) -
>
> /dev/[hs]d?1 -- Apple Disk Label as created by the Apple Disk
> Formatter; it is usually ~32KB in size...
>
> /dev/[hs]d?2 -- Linux OpenBoot Partition, must be formatted 1MB and be
> created as HFS not HFS+ or ext2/3.
>
> Beyond those two required partitions I don't see any issues with
> laying out the disk anyway you want; but those two are not negotiable.
>
>
> This advice falls under the "Works for me" category =)
> --
> WC (Bill) Jones -- http://youve-reached-the.endoftheinternet.org/
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