G3 iMac not seeing all of disk

[Matthew S Elmore]

Greetings misc@,

I have run into a problem attempting to install OpenBSD 3.7 on a Rev. D 
(summer 2000, dark blue) iMac G3.


I have a 30GB IDE drive installed in place of the factory 7GB. MacOS X 
sees the entire disk with no problems. However, OpenBSD cannot.


It detects the size of the drive and I believe all it's specifications 
(correct # of cylinders, heads, sectors, etc.) when it boots but the 
disklabel editor will not allow me to install any partitions past the 
8GB barrier.


Any idea on how I can utilize this whole disk? I would like to use the 
entire disk for OpenBSD.


Regards,
Matt


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Matthew S Elmore
dbTechnology Inc.Tuscaloosa, AL
www.dbtech.net   (205) 556-9020

Re: G3 iMac not seeing all of disk

[Matthew S Elmore]

Otto,

Thanks for help friend. Of course, when I went back to look, that 
command seemed to appear in extra large bold type. ;)


Many thanks!

Otto Moerbeek wrote:

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Matthew S Elmore wrote:



Greetings misc@,

I have run into a problem attempting to install OpenBSD 3.7 on a Rev. D
(summer 2000, dark blue) iMac G3.

I have a 30GB IDE drive installed in place of the factory 7GB. MacOS X sees
the entire disk with no problems. However, OpenBSD cannot.

It detects the size of the drive and I believe all it's specifications
(correct # of cylinders, heads, sectors, etc.) when it boots but the disklabel
editor will not allow me to install any partitions past the 8GB barrier.

Any idea on how I can utilize this whole disk? I would like to use the entire
disk for OpenBSD.



The b command in disklabel interactive editor is your friend,

-Otto