Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ppc (72 mails)

[andrea <andcri1965@xxxxxx>]

Alle 20:53, domenica 30 ottobre 2005, Julian Seward ha scritto:
> I'm trying to install SuSE10 on a Mac Mini, having successfully
> installed it on an old iMac DV400.  I carefully followed all the
> directions at http://www.opensuse.org/PPC, and the install goes
> through OK, but nothing I can do will persuade lilo to be happy.
>
> When I run it, I get:
>
>  linux:~ # /sbin/lilo
>  running on pmac_new
>  BOOT_DEVICEPATH  =  /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0:2
>  OTHER_DEVICEPATH  =  /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0:7
>  hmount: /dev/hda2: not a Macintosh HFS volume (Invalid argument)
>
> It's this last line I'm concerned about.  The partition map is:
>
>   Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda'
>   #:                type name                      length   base      (
> size ) 1: Apple_partition_map 'Apple               '        63 @ 1
>   2:     Apple_Bootstrap 'bootstrap           '     20480 @ 64        (
> 10.0M) 3:           Apple_HFS 'spare_hfs           '     20480 @ 20544    
> ( 10.0M) 4:               Linux 'spare_linux         '     20480 @ 41024   
>  ( 10.0M) 5:               Linux 'swap                '   2048000 @ 61504  
>  (1000.0M) 6:               Linux 'root                ' 106573104 @
> 2109504   ( 50.8G) 7:           Apple_HFS 'Apple_HFS_Untitled_4'  47618864
> @ 108682608 ( 22.7G) 8:          Apple_Free '                    '       
> 16 @ 156301472
>
> My reading of the opensuse.org web pages is that I should direct the
> bootloader to /dev/hda2.  hda6 is root.  hda7 contains a MacOS install.
> My lilo.conf is:
>
>  boot=/dev/hda2
>  timeout=100
>  default=linux
>  activate
>
>  image=/boot/vmlinux
>          initrd=/boot/initrd
>          label=linux
>          append="root=/dev/hda6 sysrq=1"
>
>  other=/dev/hda7
>          label=macos
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> J

may be you formatted under suse your bootstrap partition. You can do with disk 
utility under mac os side hfs not hfsplus and then re run lilo