Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ppc (75 mails)

[Tomas Garcia Ferrari <tgf@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>If you use fdisk (that is what yast uses) you can not access that disk
>anymore from MacOS.
>So you do not need another MacOS partition on it. Start with BootX and
>place the kernel vmlinux in a folder called "Linux Kernels" in your
>Systemfolder.

So I did. And what happened? The YaST had frozed when it was formating 
the disk and when I (force) restarted the Macintosh was imposible to boot 
(the computer freezes before showing the 'happy Mac', even if I try to 
boot from a CD...)

The only way that I found to boot was unplugging the HD in question... 
But can it be possible that fdisk really damage a HD for ever? I even try 
to plugg it on another SCSI id without any good result...

On top of that, the other HD, that holds the MacOS 9 is pretty damaged as 
well... it doesn't boot properly, only without extensions and if you try 
to open a folder on it the computer freezes... It was working perfectly 
before this fdisk crash!!!

I am pretty angry with this product (SuSE 6.4 for PPC) because was not 
only imposible for me to make it work but it seems to be breaking all my 
hardware as well!!!

Any advice before I through all out of the window?


Tomas Garcia Ferrari

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