Hi.
I got an iBook G4 and I'm having issues.
I'm going for an MBR scheme using the whole disk but I'm not sure
fdisk is working according to the installation instructions but I
might have a borked disk ...
Here's what I see:
Available disks are: wd0.
Which one is the root disk? (or 'done') [wd0] Enter
Use DUIDs rather than device names in fstab? [yes] n
Use HFS or MBR partition table? [HFS] MBR
Here I get "read failed" repeated 8 times, "3 not HFS", a print out of
the HFS style partitions.
The "read failed" are obviously cause for concern but I don't know if
that's from trying to read some previous Apple stuff, something
in-correct that's correctable by proceeding with a write, something
that's stopping the rest of the install or whatever.
Are you *sure* you want an MBR partition table on wd0? [no] y
Disk: wd0 geometry: 116280/16/63 [117210240 Sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending LBA Info:
#: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ]
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*0: 06 0 0 2 - 2 0 33 [ 1: 2048 ] DOS > 32MB
1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
3: A6 4 1 2 - 116279 15 63 [ 4096: 117206144 ] OpenBSD
Use (W)hole disk, use the (O)penBSD area, or (E)dit the MBR? [OpenBSD] w
I guess the reason for the DOS and OpenBSD partitions is that I've
been through this a few times.
I've tried using the whole disk or the OpenBSD area with as far as I
can see the same result except using the whole disk re-creates the DOS
partition.
Creating a 1MB DOS partition and an OpenBSD partition for the rest
of wd0...done.
/dev/rwd0i: 116720008 sectors in 15490001 FAT32 clusters (4096 bytes/cluster)
bps=512 spc=8 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf8 spt=63 hds=16 hid=262208
bsec=116948016 bspf=113985 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=2
The auto-allocated layout for wd0 is:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 128.0M 64 4.2BSD 2048 16384 1 # /
c: 57231.6M 0 unused
i: 57103.5M 262208 HFS
Use (A)uto layout, (E)dit auto layout, or create (C)ustom layout? [a] c
Here I've tried A and C but I only seem to be able to use 128MB of disk space.
For instance using A ...
/dev/rwd0a: 128.0MB in 262144 sectors of 512 bytes
4 cylinder groups of 32.00MB, 2048 blocks, 4096 inodes each
/dev/wd0a on /mnt type ffs (rw, asynchronous, local)
I've tried deleting i and adding b and so on but the a is using the
entire 128MB ...
If I delete a which as far as I can tell is not what I should be
doing, I can add 128MB at most ...
There's not enough room to install bsd and etc so I've tried
installing bsd.rd only but when I try ...
boot hd:,ofwboot /bsd.rd
... at the OF prompt I get:
Warning: sector size mismatch! can't OPEN: hd:,ofwboot
Cant open device or file
Any advice appreciated.
Best wishes.
