Probs With Partition on PowerMac with FC4

[Paul Nasrat]

On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 20:28 -0500, Joshua Curtiss wrote:

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> I read and enjoyed your Installing Fedora Core on the Mac mini
> article. I can't see how this article's instructions would differ when
> attempting to install FC4 on my QuickSilver PowerMac. So I attempted
> to do so, with some frustrating inconsistencies.

Please check bugzilla and mailing list archives before posting this has
been covered several times - including earlier in the week.
>  
> During installation, before I even get to the partition setup portion
> of the installer, I receive an error saying, "The partition's data
> region doesn't occupy the entire partition." I try clicking ignore a
> few times, and then I receive the error, "Attempt to read sectors
> 16-18 outside of partition on /dev/hda". 

This is a known bug with workarounds can you try with one of the
following solutions:

1) Use an update image:

http://people.redhat.com/clumens/mac-parted-update/updates.img

Take the updates.img and use dd to write it to a USB key, then use
that with "linux updates" at the yaboot boot: prompt.  

You will need to dd it to the entire device,
so make sure you backup whatever may be on the USB drive first.  
You can dosomething like this:

dd if=updates.img of=/dev/sda

Replace /dev/sda with the name of your USB key drive, though.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163263
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159047

2) Rename the unnamed Apple_Free partitions 

Boot installer to first screen - switch to tty2  (Ctrl-Alt F2)

cd /tmp
wget http://people.redhat.com/pnasrat/pdisk
chmod 755 pdisk
./pdisk <disk>
n (Change name)
(freespace partition no)
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w
q

Paul