Re: ibook + USB hard drive = yaboot failure

["Chasecreek Systemhouse" <chasecreek.systemhouse@gmail.com>]

On 7/14/06, brian <cymraegish@yahoo.com> wrote:

> i think what Mr CS was describing was the partition map. that is usually
> followed by a bunch of device drivers, then the small 0.8-1.0MB yaboot
> partition - which often seems to be called the first partition, even though
> it is hda9 on my disk
>
> what did you use to partition in the (very) first place ? was it a current
> (aka usb2. aware) tool ? IMHO the only way system restore would help
> is if something is wrong on your macosintall. in which case maybe
> better use parted to also split your linix root for a macos backup partition
> !!
>
> if you look at your disk in linix with parted or
> mac-fdisk, or both, what do the partition maps look like. are all
> the labels consistent, with each other as well as the description
> from the "man bootstrap" command ?

If your system was formatted using ghe Mac (Apple) disk formatter --
then yes -- it would be higher up around /dev/sda9 or there abouts;
however you dont need all those unless you plan on using the disk Dual
Booting -- which I do not do.

I do not use anything left over from the Apple Disk formatter except
/dev/[sh]d?1 (in my case /dev/hda1) which is the mandatory Apple Disk
Label itself.

Cheers!
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