Olaf Hering wrote:
On Mon, Oct 16, Dominic Maraglia wrote:
Thank you for the suggestion with installing SuSE 7.3. Over the weekend, I have decided to install SuSE on an older PowerMac g4/450 (from 1999). The install went much easier on this older hardware, but I do have one problem: I am still unable to boot from the HD. I do not understand what I am doing wrong, or if I am missing a step? Hwn I start the Mac, I only see the grey screen with the [?] folder.
The reason is likely that there is now a mac and a msdos partition label on hda. Both use non-overlapping areas in the first blocks of the drive. I suggest you boot a MacOS CD and initialize the disk again to clear the msdos label. It is in the fist 512 byte block. No idea how that happend, was this disk ever used in a PC?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=123 will clear it as well.
You have to reinstall either way.
Olaf, Thanks for the help. I think you are correct -- the hard drive is a spare that was almost certainly used in a dual boot linux/win box at some point. I will overwrite the first blocks using the dd command and give it a try again. Thanks, Dominic