Mac Mini Installation Issues

Hugh Caley Hugh_Caley at affymetrix.com
Fri Jul 8 18:02:47 EDT 2005


Paul Nasrat wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 11:41 -0700, Hugh Caley wrote:
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>>Paul Nasrat wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:55 -0700, Hugh Caley wrote:
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>>Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38154.375 megabytes
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>>Disk label type: msdos
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>>Minor           Start            End            Type            Filesystem            Flags
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>>1               0.031            7.84           primary         hfs                   boot
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>>2               7.844       	 37126.779      primary         ext3
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>>3               37126.844        38154.375      primary         linux-swap
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>>Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary
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>You've created msdos style partitions so we don't hit mac-parts hence
>the \\:tbxi magic won't be used - you have a few options - boot off what
>is there:
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>setenv boot-device hd:1,\ofboot.b
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>Or boot installer to rescue mode and create a blank mac partition table
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>parted /dev/hda mklabel mac
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This worked (parted /dev/hda mklabel, then specify "mac" for the 
label)!  So, is there a recommended procedure for dealing with the 
original partition problem, or does it just require using the command 
line utilities for the moment?

Hugh

>then reinstall.
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>You could also convert the partition table from msdos->mac - but the
>other suggestions are probably easier.
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>Paul
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