Subject: Re: Problems partitioning my YDL disk...
From: John Nelson (john@computation.com)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 21:48:35 MST
If this is true, then I see no way to put an HFS partition on a disk with
an existing YDL partition set.
-- John
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Gordon Neault wrote:
> 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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