I've managed to yaboot to work from a zip disk and install the debian base2_2.tgz. I still have to boot into OF and type "boot zip:,yaboot" but at least it works. I deleted the Linux_PPC partitions and recreated them with pdisk. I also got rid of the 2T of extra space on the hard disk that pdisk was reporting. I did not reinitialise the partition table because I have data on the partitions at the moment. I recopied the yaboot files to /dev/hda2 using mkofboot but it still can't read the config file. I will try changing hd:,\\yaboot to hd:,yaboot and see if that makes any difference. I'm getting there slowly. I have managed to break to a terminal and do an apt-get update so hopefully this might fix some installation problems.
Thanks for all your help and I will inform you of my results. Brendan Simon. Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 12:31:40PM +1000, Brendan J Simon wrote: > > > > > Really. What is it supposed to look like ? > > here is what my partition table looks like, and its working quite > well: > > /dev/hda > # type name length base > ( size ) system > /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 > ( 31.5k) Partition map > /dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 64 > (800.0k) Unknown > /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 / 143360 @ 1664 > ( 70.0M) Linux native > /dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 196608 @ 145024 > ( 96.0M) Linux swap > /dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /usr 8388608 @ 341632 > ( 4.0G) Linux native > /dev/hda6 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /usr/local 6291456 @ 8730240 > ( 3.0G) Linux native > /dev/hda7 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /opt 1228800 @ 15021696 > (600.0M) Linux native > /dev/hda8 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /var 2097152 @ 16250496 > ( 1.0G) Linux native > /dev/hda9 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /var/tmp 716800 @ 18347648 > (350.0M) Linux native > /dev/hda10 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /tmp 122880 @ 19064448 > ( 60.0M) Linux native > /dev/hda11 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 /home 20900832 @ 19187328 > ( 10.0G) Linux native > > Block size=512, Number of Blocks=40088160 > DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 > > > The only strange thing I noticed is that the "extra" partition has a length > > of > > 0xffffffff. > > yeah your partition table says your disk is 2TB, which is absurd. > > > I used pdisk to initialise the partition table with the "i" option. > > pdisk is broken in that it comes up with bogus values on large disks, > here is how to get the real number: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ cat /proc/partitions | grep -w hda > 3 0 20044080 hda > [EMAIL PROTECTED] eb]$ > > 20044080 * 2 = 40088160 <--- use this value when mac-fdisk asks how > many blocks there are. > > > I didn't know how to set the size or types of partitions using pdisk or > > fdisk, > > so I used the LinuxPPC X based disk partitioner. I just set the last > > partition > > from the looks of it LinuxPPC's partitioner is broken, for one its not > creating partitions with the right type (which might not make a > difference, i err on caution and do it the standard way) > > pdisk is not hard to use, it just takes some getting used to. see below.. > > > to be as large as I could get. > > > > How do I fix the partition table ? > > mac-fdisk (or pdisk) /dev/hda > > Command (? for help): i > blocks: <value from /proc/partitions * 2> > > Command (? for help): C > First block: 2P > Length in blocks: 800K > Name of partition: bootstrap > Type of partition: Apple_Bootstrap > Command (? for help): c > First block: 3P > Length in blocks: 256M > Name of partition: swap > Command (? for help): c > First block: 4P > Length in blocks: 2048M > Name of partition: / > Command (? for help): c > First block: 5P > Length in blocks: 5P > Name of partition: /home > Command (? for help): w > Command (? for help): q > > > I want 800KB bootstrap, 256MB of swap, 2GB for "/" and the rest for "/home". > > see above. > > use real pdisk or mac-fdisk from debian preferably, say away from > that broken X based partitioner...
