On 18/08/01 14:16, "Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:51:29AM +0200, pejvan wrote: >> Ok this time I really do think that os X install has fucked up my bootstrap >> partition : > > again i would love to see a before and after image of your partition > table. > > without data all we are left with is conjecture. > The problem is : how can I print this partition table to send it to you ? The stupid pdisk for macOS cant find my drive : Top level command (? for help): l /dev/hda ATAPI - unit not ready ATAPI - unit not ready pdisk: can't open file '/dev/hda' And i cannot get the stuff from linux because I simply cant boot it ;)) >> >> $ parted /dev/hda set 7 boot on >> Give me something like : "the boot partition doesnot start here" :-((( > > sounds like an old version of parted then. probably doesn't support > mac partition tables. > Damn, it's the version from the Mandrake Beta CD... And i dont have the CD anymore, so I cant get that version number. Anyway it would not help i think :) >> Thanks, i took a look at that, and the apple stuff on ADC. >> The ADC stuff is totally useless for my stuff, and the Sun's stuff seemed to >> general... Do you think that reading the code of yaboot/ybin could help ? > > ybin itself won't be very helpful since it doesn't interface with OF > at all. the ofboot part of ybin would be helpful since its Forth > code. yaboot might give you some insight, but it really doesn't > play very nice with OF so i wouldn't call it a good role model to go > by. > > silo generally has nicer code nowadays (and supports OpenFirmware, of > the Sun variety). > Hehe, ok. I use Silo on my old Sparc Classic machine. But if OpenFirmware is as open and apple's version is compliant with the Ok thanks for the tips, sadly, i wont be able to take a look at them before the end of september... Too many exams and my job... I'm pissed off but I'm brave ;))) >> Ok i'm really brave ( ;-) ) and I used and hexeditor on /dev/hda (not hdaX >> btw :-)) and changed my Apple_HFS to Apple_Bootstrap, as you asked, but i > > /dev/hda1 IS the partition table, its generally safer to edit that > then the entire disk since its less likly to overload the hexeditor (i > have seen them segfault when you give them huge ammounts of data like > /dev/hda will). it also contains any mistakes to the partition table > instead of your filesystems. > OK sorry I didnot get that, I thought I had to hexedit my bootstrap partition and not specially the hda1 then. Sorry. Anyway, hexedit was not overloaded by my 30GB drive. Nice ! >> still cant boot linux, even with all the OF stuff I'd tried before... > > you must rerun mkofboot. > OK then I will. >> So what's next ? Running the mandrake cd and >> reconfuring/installing/rerunning the hole ybin/yaboot stuff ? > > rerun mkofboot, and send me the output of mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda > Mac-fdisk was not on the Boot CD so I cant run it :-( > i NEED that info to see whats wrong. its probably quite obvious, but > since you won't show me i can't say. I'll do my best to send them to you ASAP, but i must find a way to extract the info I need and put them some place where MacOS can get them. It's kindda pathetic isn't it ? Pejvan
