Re: [iBook 300Mhz] ybin: undocumented error ?
Hi Norbert!
* Norbert Lange-Schäfer <bopa-mema@t-online.de> <
> [2007-06-20]:
> Hi Ennio.
> After an apt-get dist-upgrade I could not dual-(tripple)-boot my ibook g3
> (Dual-USB late 2001 with 40 GB disk).
> Even a total new install of macos, macx, debain-etch did'nt help; Ubuntu-PPC
> did'nt help, changing the install-routine did'nt help ...
> Always all three OS were on the disk, but I could only access macx and
> linux. ybin was no help - though it reported no error and found the
> macos-partition. My best guess: something with the "blessing" went wrong.
>
> My solution: (Dont ask me why it worked!)
> Step 1: Installing all three os (1. repartitioning the disk with the
> mac9.1-CDROM, then install macos, then install macx10.0.4, install last
> linux)
> Step 2: configure yaboot.conf for all three; run ybin -v: all three os were
> found, but only macx and linux bootable
> Step 3: Insert a USB-Stick
> Step 4: Boot from mac9.1-CDROM
> - the USB is shown on the desktop
> Step 5: Try to install mac9.1 on the USB-Stick!
> - some Error-messages came up - I didnt bother
> Step 5: Reboot from disk: all three os were bootable!
>
> (N.B. Had to re-format the USB-Stick with cfdisk - small issue)
>
> Hope this helps a bit.
> Another tip:
> hattrib can change hfs-formated file attributes. Since I have hfsplus it was
> no help for me.
> Even mol works fine (beside some CDROM issues)
>
> Norbert
>
Thank you for your message: I'll try your suggestions as soos as
I can and will report the results.
In the meantime, could you please tell me how you partitioned the HD?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
My MacOS 9.1 could only make 8 partitions, but I made 4 (First 70 GB
reserved to linux, 2nd (HFS+) for MacOs9, 3rd (HFS) Xchange part., 4th
(HFS+) for MacOSX (which, however, wouldn't install from OS9.1!). Then I
divided the linux partition into 15 different linux partitions, except
the first one reserved for Apple_Bootstrap.
When I try to boot MacOS9 the OF says 'cannot open hda24' (the OS9 part.)
If I boot MacOS9 from CD it doesn't see any partition and will only
allow re-initialization (but if I choose to re-initialize, it shows all
the partitins, although grayed out!).
Ennio
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