Mac Mini Installation Issues

[Hugh Caley]

Paul Nasrat wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:55 -0700, Hugh Caley wrote:
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>>I also had the problem with the partition error on initial install;
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>>"The partition data region doesn´t occupy the entire partition"
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>>"Attempt to read 16-18 outside of partition on /dev/sda"
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>>I was able to get around it by firing up fdisk and writing a new 
>>partition table before doing the installation.
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>When you say fdisk do you mean fdisk or pdisk?
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>If you used fdisk you'll have created msdos style partition tables.
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Sure, but then I let Fedora write it's own.  Or actually, I used Disk 
Druid to write the table below.

>>After that, the installation went smoothly.  However, on reboot, I only 
>>get the flashing Mac "looking for a boot disk" graphic.
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>>Boot with cmd-option-o-f; printenv.
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>>boot-device /pci at f4000000/ata-6 at d/disk at 0:,\\:tbxi hd:,\\:tbxi
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>Can you boot of CD to rescue mode
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>boot cd:,\\:tbxi
>linux rescue
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>and give the output of parted /dev/hda print
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Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38154.375 megabytes

Disk label type: msdos

Minor           Start            End            Type            Filesystem            Flags

1               0.031            7.84           primary         hfs                   boot

2               7.844       	 37126.779      primary         ext3

3               37126.844        38154.375      primary         linux-swap

Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary



>Paul
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