Re: No dual boot after installing Debian Etch on iBook
2007/6/8, Ennio-Sr <nasr.laili@tin.it>:
[Sorry for POSSIBLE DUPLICATE]
Hi all,
I replaced the 3GB HD of my ibook (MacOS9 and Debian (Sarge) ppc happily
working on it) with a brand new 80GB HD.
I booted from an OS 9 CD, made 4 hfs+ partitions (70 GB reserved for
Debian, the other 3 for Mac OS 9, Mac OS X and an Xchange partition),
installed Mac OS 9, rebooted and could see that the system was there.
Then I rebooted from a _powerpc net-installer_ CD and installed the
Debian_40r0-powerpc, re-partitioning the big Debian partition into 13
ext2 parts plus a small Apple_bootstrap one. Added the macos= line in
/etc/yaboot.conf, ran ybin and rebooted.
Well, at this point I could see the label relating to Mac OS 9 (beside
the Linux one) but when I chose it I was presented with the small
icon in the middle of a white screen with a flashing question mark in
it! What is worst is that when rebooting from the Mac CD, no HFS
partition was visible and the only option would be to re-initialize the
HD.
I ran the full installation process three times (changing the position of
the HFS partitions) but, alas, the result was still the same.
An fdisk -l /dev/hda shows me that the HFS partitions are there (BTW,
they appear as HFS and not HFS+ as chosen when initializing from Mac).
Found a similar report on Google, but I have no Mac OS X right now to
see if it will be able to recover the Mac os.
Any suggestion? May be I should re-install chhosing the old Sarge?
Or, perhaps, the 'old glorious' G3 300Mhz cannot master the 80GB hd?
Hi there,
Yes this is a weird issue.
Maybe is it the hardware of the iBook G3 300 MHz which is unable to recognize the 80 GB hard disk.
I've made a page that might by helpful to you, here:
http://pierre.baudu.in/ibook/
(This page is about installing Debian 4.0 on my iBook G3)
Also, on another Mac, I have encountered a weird problem where, just after having installed Debian
4.0, the machine becomes unbootable, and indeed shows a flashing "?" inside a disk, look at the installation report I made:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422836
(However, the problem happened on an OldWorld Mac, using the BootX bootloader)
Hope this could help,
Greetings,
--
Pierre Bauduin
Linux enthusiast since 1996
Linux registered user #64711
Debian GNU/Linux user
website: http://pierre.baudu.in/
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