Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ppc (72 mails)

[Julian Seward <julian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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