On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:48:30AM +0000, Matthew Kirkwood wrote: > > post the output of mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda > > Will do when I get home tonight.
this is a long shot but did this disk used to have a x86 partition table on it? i am not certain that mac-fdisk zeros out the first block, and the way mac partition tables are structured its actually possible to have both a x86 partition table and a mac partition table at the same time, both with completely different data. if there is a x86 partition table the kernel will probably see it first. > For now, we have: > > > I made (in order, if I recall correctly): > > > > 250Mb Swap > > 125Mb Root > > 125Mb Tmp > > 500Mb Var > > 2Gb Usr > > remainder (around 1.3Gb I think) Home > > > > And there was the (I think) 32Kb partition map at the > > very beginning. yes there should be, apple partition tables are kept in a apple partition. wierd eh? also note if this is a newworld box you need to create an 800K Apple_Bootstrap partition if you want this disk to ever be bootable. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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