On Wed, Jun 06, Tomek wrote:
I have in my Macintosh G3 266 MHz disk Segate Barracuda 20 GB ST320420S as master disk. I partitioning it with Apple Drive Setup 1. MacOS partision 9,4 GB 2. Swap 128 MB 3. Root Aux 9,4 Then I start Linux from disk 1 using BootX App and ramdisk.image.gz from these disk. At start I see that disk hda not appear in checking I see only my second disk hdd. I try manualy partytioning disk hda with fdisk but not succesfuul. I can't make any partition.
We had that problem once, some drives dont work properly. One solution was to boot via miboot, it did not work via bootx, maybe MacOS leaves the drive in an unknown status. You can boot into miboot that way: - copy the suseboot folder on CD1 on your Linux boot partition - Make sure you have a "vmlinux" and a "ramdisk.image.gz" in that folder. - You can check if miboot is properly configured with ResEdit, open the STR# ressource and compare the path names, the version on the CD looks for :suseboot:vmlinux and :suseboot:ramdisk.image.gz - There must be a Finder file and a System (which is miboot) file - mark that volume bootable in the Startup control panel - reboot, it should drop you directly into the Linux kernel Make sure you have a MacOS CD around, or it will be difficult to reset the active boot volume. Zapping the pram may help. When it really works, compare the kernel messages. The IDE driver will tell you something about the disk geometry (Cyl/heads/sectors). You can modify the auto detected defaults with that kernel arg: dmesg: hda: 53464320 sectors (27374 MB) w/1961KiB Cache, CHS=53040/16/63, (U)DMA ... hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry (Cyl/heads/sectors) or tune parameters. ... Good luck. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...