Re: No dual boot after installing Debian Etch on iBook
Hi Pierre,
thanks for your rapid answer: I hope you'll get my reply as soon as
possible (although subscribed I am not receiving messages from the list
and not all posts I sent went through ;-( .... )
* Pierre Bauduin <pierre@baudu.in> <
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> 2007/6/8, Ennio-Sr <nasr.laili@tin.it>:
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> > [Sorry for POSSIBLE DUPLICATE]
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> Hi there,
>
> Yes this is a weird issue.
>
> Maybe is it the hardware of the iBook G3 300 MHz which is unable to
> recognize the 80 GB hard disk.
Mmh, this is one of the first doubts I had; however, using the MacOS9
install CD I could see the whole 80GB and make 8 partitions (in one on
my attempts).
>
> I've made a page that might by helpful to you, here:
> http://pierre.baudu.in/ibook/
> (This page is about installing Debian 4.0 on my iBook G3)
>
I found it very interesting.
Did I miss something or you didn't make any 'Apple_bootstrap' partition?
(which should be made by the debianppc installer thus violating the 'must'
not touch the partition map made by Mac you underlined in your
document).
> Also, on another Mac, I have encountered a weird problem where, just after
> having installed Debian 4.0, the machine becomes unbootable, and indeed
> shows a flashing "?" inside a disk, look at the installation report I made:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422836
> (However, the problem happened on an OldWorld Mac, using the BootX
> bootloader)
>
I 'subscribed' this bug, adding my own experience. I hope my post gets
through!
> Hope this could help,
> Greetings,
Sure, it helped a lot!
Best regards,
Ennio
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Ennio. (Please change . for .dot. and @ for .at. in my Reply-To) )=(
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