I think so, that's why I tried to warn you of issues with MacOS on the
last partition, and why I stress in the install documents to start with
Apple_Free at the end of the drive.
Sorry about that,
Stew Benedict
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On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Brice D Ruth wrote:
> OK, I checked out an OF boot help page and did the following:
>
> *devalias macos /pci@f2000000/mac-io@17/ata-4@1f000/disk@0:11,\\:tbxi*
>
> store the alias back to NVRAM and then reset and tried it - I get the
> following message from OF:
>
> *MAC-PARTS: bad partition can't OPEN: macos*
>
> Am I 100% hosed w/ no hope of recovery?
>
> -Brice
>
> Brice D Ruth wrote:
>
> > How would I go about booting to my MacOS partition from OF, knowing
> > which partition holds it?
> >
> > -Brice
> >
> > Brice D Ruth wrote:
> >
> >> OK, I used pdisk for MacOS to delete my 'boot' and YDL partition,
> >> leaving my MacOS parition intact (hda11). I booted to the install
> >> ISO using OF (thank you Stew) and went through and let DiskDrake set
> >> up some partitions for me - /, /home, and swap. It didn't touch my
> >> HFS partition, so everything looked good. It then went through and
> >> formatted those partitions and then continued the install.
> >>
> >> Bang.
> >>
> >> It couldn't find the RPM list for CD1 (don't know why) - and I
> >> couldn't get past that step, so I rebooted - using my MacOS Install
> >> CD which then informed me that my HFS partition was fsck'd and it
> >> wanted to initialize it. Now what?
> >>
> >> I'm at a loss ... what can I do here, folks?
> >>
> >> -Brice
> >>
> >
>
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