Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore

2011-05-21 Thread annathemermaid
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tag 604134 - squeeze-ignore Justification: workaround doesn't work, alternative workaround (described below) is horribly, horribly convoluted I am multi-booting on an iBook G3 (April 2003), 900mHz. The hardware does, amazingly for a G3, appear to be c

Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore

2011-01-17 Thread Mathias Wittau
Hi Sebastian, > thanks for the report you've written after you have had so many troubles > with your PowerMac G4. No problem, I am interrested in a well working Debian ;) > It is interesting that > connecting HDDs with a higher capacity and restricting their disk space > usable to a maximum of

Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore

2011-01-17 Thread Sebastian Schroeer
Hi Mathias, thanks for the report you've written after you have had so many troubles with your PowerMac G4. Of course, it is crucial to either use hard disk drives supported by your early G4 Power Mac's internal PATA controller (i.e. devices featuring a capacity of up to 128GB in early Power

Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize, disk anymore

2011-01-16 Thread Mathias Wittau
Dear Sebastian Schroeer! Your workaround is usable - at least partially. In general it is still possible to have a bootable Debian beside a bootable MacOS 9 at the same disk, as long as the Hard Disk is smaller than 128 GB. The last 3 days I did 8 or 9 complete installations of MacOS 9 AND Debian,

Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize, disk anymore

2011-01-11 Thread Sebastian Schroeer
Adam D. Barratt wrote: It sounds like there's a workaround for the problems mentioned in this bug report, so I don't think this should be a blocker for squeeze; tagging appropriately. Hi! I also think that this problem should not serve as a reason for a delay of Squeeze. Yet, ideally an

Processed: Re: Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize, disk anymore

2011-01-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > user release.debian@packages.debian.org Setting user to release.debian@packages.debian.org (was a...@adam-barratt.org.uk). > tag 604134 + squeeze-ignore Bug #604134 [parted] partman-base: Makes MacOS 9 incompatible partition table Added t

Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize, disk anymore

2011-01-11 Thread Adam D. Barratt
user release.debian@packages.debian.org tag 604134 + squeeze-ignore usertag 604134 + squeeze-can-defer thanks Hi, On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 01:43 +, Sebastian Schroeer wrote: > Dear Mr Wittau! > > To make sure that nothing unexpected will cause you troubles, please > read through my complet

Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize, disk anymore

2011-01-03 Thread Sebastian Schroeer
Dear Mr Wittau! To make sure that nothing unexpected will cause you troubles, please read through my complete text first before doing anything: I successfully run Debian "Lenny", Mac OS 9, Mac OS X 10.4, and 10.5 on my PowerMac G4/800MHz "Quicksilver" using just one hard disk drive with vario

Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore

2010-11-21 Thread Milan Kupcevic
It looks like installer creates MacOS 9 incompatible partition table, but which works fine with MacOS X and Linux. After partitioning a disk using default settings with MacOS X installer CD I installed MacOS X on its third partition and MacOS 9 on its second partition. Then: - booted the machine

Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore

2010-11-20 Thread Milan Kupcevic
clone 604134 -1 reassign -1 os-prober retitle -1 os-prober: Won't detect MacOS 9 severity -1 important affects -1 yaboot-installer thanks I can confirm that os-prober takes a look at hfsplus partition containing MacOS 9, but won't report installed MacOS 9. Cloning to os-prober. signature.asc De

Processed: Re: Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore

2010-11-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > clone 604134 -1 Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore Bug 604134 cloned as bug 604192. > reassign -1 os-prober Bug #604192 [yaboot-installer] ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won&#

Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore

2010-11-20 Thread Mathias Wittau
I did further investigations if other people had similar problems, and indeed the problem occured several times. For example in 2008 here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2008/05/msg00047.html So it seems to be a common issue. But the solution which worked for José, and Samy back than, do no

Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore

2010-11-20 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 604134 yaboot-installer thanks Quoting wit...@lnxnt.org (wit...@lnxnt.org): > As said above all MacOS 9 data are accessable from Debian, but it seems to us > Debian partitioning tool is "killing" the non afflicted MacOS 9 partitions for > MacOS 9. We don't know how to get our MacOS 9 sys

Processed: Re: Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore

2010-11-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 604134 yaboot-installer Bug #604134 [installation-reports] ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore Bug reassigned from package 'installation-reports' to 'yaboot-installer'. > thanks Stopping processing here.

Bug#604134: ppc: after debian installation MacOS 9.2 won't recognize disk anymore

2010-11-20 Thread wittau
Package: installation-reports Severity: critical Tags: d-i Justification: breaks unrelated software (other OS on same computer) We did a clean new installation of MacOS 9.2.2, and subsequent the next step for setting up a dualboot system. We created 3 partitions with MacOS 9 (1 Linux with 71GB,