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Re: Etch on G5: Yaboot problem still persists



Hi, Steven.

On Jun 08 2008, Steven DuBois wrote:
> Debian was installed on /dev/sdb4, so i mounted it, chroot'd it and
> ran macfdisk /dev/sdb4 and then p. It then said that no partition map
> exists.

Indeed, that's because you mounted the partition. You should run
macfdisk (or whatever it is called nowadays) on the whole device, like

# macfdisk /dev/sdb

And then press b, as Wolfgang told you. The partition map doesn't get
installed under a partition (unless you have a very unusual setup).

> Not entirely sure what to do here and I dont want to make a mistake.

Hope this is yet another step into the right direction.


Regards, Rogério Brito.

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