[slackintosh-users] Re: Install / boot problem on Powerbook G4

Adrian Ulrich wrote:

Hi,



Seems that does it for creating the swap, but I'm not sure for the root (do I need to give it another name?) 


Nope,



Ok, I will keep naming it "root"




I then installed (expert mode, installing packages from a and mac) the very basics. Installation completes, but then nothing comes up when I reboot.



Ehr, did the yaboot installation work?
(You NEED hfsutils installed for yaboot)




Hmm, this could be it. If the package is not in A nor Mac, then I don't have it.

I think it's the boot partition. When formatting that partition, I'm not to sure about the size. I tried ext2 / ext3 / reiser / xfs and in xfs it seems that he thinks that there are 39 G blocks of 1K, which is not correct.



root or boot(strap) partition ?

You shouldn't touch the bootstrap partition yourself.




Well, Slackintosh did not see the LVM partition, thus it was the small one, which should become /boot in fstab. Anaconda does not give names to partitions like it's mentionned in Slack. Think they don't care about it.

The size of the disk is 20G. In mac-fdisk, the blocks are also 39M in total, but of 512B, making 20G. I think the error could be here.



What size does the kernel report while booting? (dmesg)




Kernel is correct: 39070080 sectors (20003 Mb) CHS=38760/16/63 .... So that's ok.
It must be the installer depicting it wrong.

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