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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