Subject: Re: Linux Boot Floppy?
From: Tommy Young (tommyyoung@mac.com)
Date: Sat Nov 11 2000 - 13:57:22 MST
Depending on how badly damaged the partition table is, if the drive is
connected and on while in the system boot time, the system will not boot, as
was in my case, as I had tried a boot cd, as I do have a boot cd Drive,
because it is a apple. You could also try putting the internal hd in another
computer and fixing it there. I know this is kind of not using a linux boot
disk, but hey. Also if you really want a boot disk, as i recall from my days
tring to get debian working on my centris 650, there are boot disk available
from debian mirrors. I will look into this.
Tommy
> From: "Robert Vogt IV" <vogt@arborhost.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 13:03:51 -0500
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: Linux Boot Floppy?
>
> Tommy,
>
>> This is not wwxactly solving your problem but I had this problem before
>> except with a pmac 8600. I had to disconnect the internal hd until after the
>> system looked for drives at boot. I put in a second hd with a system
>> installed from another machine, and botted of it, then reformated the
>> internal drive.
> Thanks for the info. However, this might be a bit extreme... I figure
> I can get the machine to boot into Linux, and I could then reformat the disk
> using pdisk/fdisk...
>
> I have an external Syquest EzDrive (135MB) which I can use, if I REALLY
> have to have the MacOS to boot Linux, but this is very non-ideal, and may
> not work.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Robert Vogt IV
> CEO
> ArborHost
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