Subject: Re: Problems partitioning my YDL disk...
From: Gordon Neault (gordo-x@shaw.ca)
Date: Sun Feb 17 2002 - 00:43:52 MST
Just a guess...
I don't think YDL creates a "true" HFS partition; it's partitioner is
really only for creating boot partitions, which are normally not visible
(mounted) in MacOS.
On Sunday, February 17, 2002, at 04:53 AM, John Nelson wrote:
>
> Urm.... I've run into a problem after adding an HFS partition to one of
> my YDL/Mac disks. After adding the partition "Guanine2" to my YDL disk
> with hformat, I try to boot into Mac OS but I get an error panel that
> claims "SCSI Probe encountered a problem and crashed (try turning off
> inits with SHIFT)" . I tried SHIFT while booting but that didn't turn
> off SCSI probe.
>
> The actual Mac boot stuff is on its own disk so I'm pretty sure that Mac
> OS is ok. It's pretty clear that Mac OS is crashing because its probing
> the disk with the new Mac partition and encounters something it REALLY
> doesn't like.
>
> Here's the YDL disk with the new partition in minor 3....
>
> (parted) print
> Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-17547.607 megabytes
> Disk label type: mac
> Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags
> 1 0.000 0.031 Apple
> 2 0.031 0.057 Macintosh
> 4 0.094 0.343 Patch Partition
> 6 2.344 12.344 untitled boot
> 7 12.344 268.344 linux-swap swap swap
> 8 268.345 13547.606 ext2 untitled
> 3 13547.606 17547.606 hfs Guanine2
>
> Any ideas on how to correct this? I can't format this disk with Mac OS
> because Mac OS will overwrite the YDL partitions almost assuredly. I
> seem to be stuck using hformat and parted, but as you can see that isn't
> working either.
>
> -- John
>
>
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