Hi all...
Finally getting back to some time trying Mandrake on IBM hardware. I
have a 43p 140 and got my own 2.4.10-pre4 kernel running on it. I
rsync'ed the latest ppc cooker from wtfo (yesterday) and used all-2.2.gz
as the ramdisk 'cause the all.gz is a bit too big for a floppy :(. This
is probably my first mistake so holler if so.
I booted the zImage with root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=60000
rw.
Now the machine has two 2GB scsi drives which happen to be already
partitioned (DOS fdisk tables). I did an ftp install and got pretty far
into the installer (expert install). It gave me the "I can't read your
partition table..." dialog. Here's the end of the log:
...
* step `miscellaneous' finished
* starting step `doPartitionDisks'
* warning: bad magic number at
/usr/bin/perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm line 31.
* found a dos partition table on /dev/sda at sector 0
* PPC: found a hole on sda before 1040187392, skipping device...
* warning: bad magic number at
/usr/bin/perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm line 31.
* found a dos partition table on /dev/sdb at sector 0
* error reading partition table: partitions sector #104187392 (1TB) and
sector #815466240 (470GB) are overlapping!
now this is pretty much were I left off a couple months ago :(.
# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 67 heads, 62 sectors, 1017 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4154 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 2 4123 41 PPC PReP Boot
/dev/sda2 3 66 132928 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 67 1017 1975227 83 Linux
