Hi, I can not give you the partition table or map, because I reinstalled everything again. I now have installed MacOSX on a clean disk, the first 200 GB free HFS partition, then 40 GB for MacOSX HFS+ case-sensitive with journaling feature. After the MacOS X installation went fine, I installed Debian again, now with the latest Netinstall ISO-image for etch. Still the Partition Tool in the Debian Installer, did not recognize any of the existing Mac Partition Map.
I switched to a shell and used "mac-fdisk" to create a Apple Bootstrap partition, a Linux Swap partition and a Linux partition for a big ext3 root filesystem. After that I could install the base system. The installation of the bootloader (yaboot) did not succeed. After I rebooted the Mac and booted again into the Rescue-System I could install yaboot. Now the dual boot is working fine. I think the Kernel does not reread the partition map after I added the Linux partitions. Are you having automatically support for Mac Partition Maps in the Debian Installer? bye Waldemar -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Sven Luther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 18. September 2006 17:14 An: EXTERNAL Brodkorb Waldemar (Tarent; AA-DG/ESW1); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Bug#388085: installation on Apple G5 On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 03:43:06PM +0200, EXTERNAL Brodkorb Waldemar (Tarent; AA-DG/ESW1) wrote: > Package: installation-reports > > Boot method: mini.iso > Image version: 2006-08-07 > Date: 2006-09-18 > Machine: Apple PowerMac G5 > Processor: ppc64 > Memory: 2 GB > Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred> > > Output of lspci and lspci -n: > > Base System Installation Checklist: > [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it > > Initial boot worked: [x] > Configure network HW: [x] > Config network: [x] > Detect CD: [x] > Load installer modules: [x] > Detect hard drives: [x] > Partition hard drives: [E] > Create file systems: [x] > Mount partitions: [x] > Install base system: [x] > Install boot loader: [x] > Reboot: [x] > > Comments/Problems: > > The partition manager did not recognized my MacOS X partition table. > I installed MacOS X on a 20 GB partition before I started the Debian > installation. > So a dual-boot is not supported at the moment, if you already have MacOS > X installed. hi, Well, it used to work, so i, as well as the parted team i guess, really would like to know more about your mac-os-x parttition table, what mac-os-x version you are using, and how you did partition your disk. If you could provide us with a dump of the partition table part of the disk (dd if=/dev/hda of=/tmp/file bs=1K count=1024 for example), so we can look at it and investigate would be nice. Friendly, Sven Luther
