Maybe you can boot in rescue mode, use pdisk to create 1 mb partition rename it as bootstrap set the type (what was the type?), and use mkofboot (was this correct name? Same than ybin, but creates the filesystem as well) to create the file system for it. Maybe then the isntaller finds it.
Arto >>From: Ernst Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: Problem with partioning >>Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 04:56:30 +0100 >> >>>>>Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/ata0.0' (/dev/hda) >>>>> #: type name length base ( size ) >>>>> 1: Partition_Filler 0 @ 0 >>>>> 2: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 >>>>> 3: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 54 @ 64 >>>>> 4: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 74 @ 118 >>>>> 5: Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 200 @ 192 >>>>> 6: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 392 >>>>> 7: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 904 >>>>> 8: Apple_HFS "MacOS" 1193416 @ 7000000 (582.7M) >>>>> 9: Apple_HFS "Install" 100000 @ 6900000 ( 48.8M) >>>>>10: Apple_Free Extra 6898584 @ 1416 ( 3.3G) >>>>>11: Apple_HFS "OSX" 8192000 @ 8193416 ( 3.9G) >>>>>12: Apple_HFS "Brutus" 32016384 @ 16385416 ( 15.3G) >>>>>13: Apple_HFS "Maximus" 32016384 @ 48401800 ( 15.3G) >>>>>14: Apple_Free 56 @ 80418184 >>>>> >>>>>Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=80418239 (38.3G) >>>>>DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 >>>>>Drivers- >>>>>1: 21 @ 64, type=0x701 >>>>>2: 34 @ 118, type=0xf8ff >>>>> >>>>it looks like you don't have enough free space(Apple_Free). you only >>>>have an >>>>Apple_Free partition of 56 which is not big enough. try to delete a >>>>partition(u can use pdisk for this) and try again >>>>mike >>>> >>> >>>That's what I thought at first glance too, but he does have 3.3GB >>>free. I >>>think what's throwing the installer is the arrangement of the >>>partitions, >>>with partition 10 having blocks that would normally put it between 7 and >>>8. >> >>The thing is that I have installed a 40 GB HD on my old iMac 266, and >>then I need to have the boot-partions on the first 8 GB. So I've been >>messing around a bit with the partions and they ended up this way... >>Anyway, it does work really fine with all mac-stuff, and with all p-disk >>stuff, both on linux and MacOS and also everything works fine on Debian. >>So I was surprised when the installer couldn't find anything.... And >>that's the thing, it's not confused, it can't find anything at all!! >>Says /dev/hda is empty and has no partions! Kindof scared me at first, > >is that exactly what it said(word for word)? personally i think the >installer looks for free space at the end of your hard drive. since >all your free space is between "Macos" and "OSX" the installer >dosen't see that. my suggestion is to put the partitions in this >order: macos, osx, brutus, maxmus, then your free space.. i'm pretty >sure this will work for you because it works for me... >mike > >>thought that it had messed up my entire HD. >> >>And don't tell me its just: "You will never install mandrake on your >>HD" ! >> >>//ernie >> >>I had an idea... if I could make an alias of pdisk over fdisk, mabye the >>installer would use pdisk instead and everything would work? But it's on >>a cd so it's hard to change anything, and you don't have very good >>access to the console from the installer... >> > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- -------------------------- :^) ------------- (^: ----------------------- Arto Leskinen Tel. +358 9 2291 2242 Finnish Association of Graduate Engineers TEK Fax. +358 9 2291 2911 Ratavartijankatu 2, FIN-00520 Helsinki GSM +358 40 553 9474 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
