Re: pdisk won't initialize a fresh disk


Subject: Re: pdisk won't initialize a fresh disk
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 14 2001 - 12:05:17 MST


On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Stew Benedict wrote:
>
> I'm following this thread with interest, as I'm dealing with a similar
> problem. I've go a nice used Bronze Powerbook, I just acquired. No
> MacOS9 CD, and a spare HD. I successfully installed CS1.2 in 12 minutes
> on an existing x86 setup Linux partition, but can't boot it.
>
> Did a little research on Open Firmware, but that doesn't seem to get me
> anywhere either as apparently you still need yaboot to load the kernel up.
>
> Finally I decide to go for broke, booted the tasty morsels CD, and ran
> fdisk to clean the partition table, then pdisk to initialize a Mac
> partition table and create a boot loader partition. Unfortunately, pdisk
> does not seem to want to write a virgin table that hasn't previously been
> setup by MacOS.

pdisk sucks like that. parted works much better. Unfortunately, you don't
have that on CD. You're going to need to repartition with either the Mac
OS or a Linux machine that has parted.

-Hollis



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