Re: Can't boot Mac OSX after installing Etch - solved
Must have been something with the buggy graphical installer or my messing with the partitions. I used OSX partitioning tool to partition the HDD (it's piece of crap by the way) and everything is working dual-boot wise now.
Feel like a bit of a moron now!
Ananda
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:12:03 +0000
Ananda Samaddar <a.k.samaddar@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I don't know what I did wrong. According to some NetBSD documentation I had a look at, the broken folder icon means that Mac OSX cannot find a bootable partition. mac-fdisk see the partitions in Debian, but parted does not see any. Also I booted the OSX installer CD and accessed the disk utility, it also couldn't see any partitions. Apparently PPC macs store partition maps on a seperate small partition at the beginning of the disk. Obviously this must have been corrupted. Is there any way to fix it?
>
> I've just realised, I was messing about with the graphical PPC installer for Etch and it messed up on the partition screen several times so I used the text installer instead. I wonder if this has anything to do with it. I think I'm going to just reinstall both again and not mess about with the graphical installer for Etch this time. I'll post the results shortly.
>
> cheers,
>
> Ananda
>
>
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:38:36 +0100
> Børge Holen <borge@arivene.net> wrote:
>
> > On Monday 22 January 2007 19:14, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > > On (22/01/07 16:49), Ananda Samaddar wrote:
> > > > I am new to the PPC platform after having use either Debian or Ubuntu
> > > > on X86 for a while now. I would describe myself as an intermediate
> > > > user, I can usually get most things working on my own, but this one
> > > > has got me stumped.
> > > >
> > > > After selecting Mac OSX (10.1 btw) from the Yaboot prompt. The little
> > > > Apple face appears but instead of booting normally a broken folder
> > > > icon appears and then system appears to hang.
> > > >
> > > > As I said I'm quite experienced with X86 problems but have had no
> > > > experience at all with PPC till about four days ago! I tried google
> > > > etc but had no luck. Any help would be appreciated as I don't know
> > > > where to start!
> > >
> > > Try booting with Apple+Option+P+R keys held down. That will reset the
> > > PRAM. It may not help but always worth trying before more drastic
> > > solutions like reinstalling your OSX system.
> >
> > This sounds like a bad good idea, I wanna know what went askew...
> > I never had this problem, so either this dude went astray with the installer,
> > or something needs to be fixed
> >
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Clive
> > >
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