Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Newbie problem: Mac-fdisk command p doesn't display first and second ATA-harddrive

[Pieter Van den Abeele]

Hi

A G5 has Serial-ATA drives. Linux puts these under /dev/sda. (I've 
cc'ed swift to see if the handbook says anything about Serial ATA 
drives)

You have to partition /dev/sda. My G5 for instance has the following 
partition map:

Dual-G5 dev # mac-fdisk /dev/sda
/dev/sda
Command (? for help): p
/dev/sda
         #                    type name                  length   base   
    ( size )  system
dump: name /dev/sda len 8
/dev/sda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @ 1      
    ( 31.5k)  Partition map
/dev/sda2         Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap               1600 @ 
171966528 (800.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
/dev/sda3               Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_2 167510016 @ 
262208    ( 79.9G)  HFS
/dev/sda4         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                 4194304 @ 
167772224 (  2.0G)  Linux swap
/dev/sda5         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 boot                  262144 @ 64     
    (128.0M)  Linux native
/dev/sda6         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 gentoo             148204928 @ 
171968128 ( 70.7G)  Linux native

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=320173056
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0

Command (? for help):

Best Regards,

Pieter Van den Abeele



On 08 Apr 2004, at 17:17, Markus Kuschnik wrote:

> Dear Listmembers,
>
> Thanks to Joe McMahon's explanation of some boot messages onscreen and
> Pieter Van den Abeele's advice to use the 2004.0 universal cd, I
> downloaded
> and burned the isi image of that new version and I am now able to boot
> Gentoo on the G5.
> I also mastered the first steps before the actual installation
> procedure
> (changing root-password, creating new user, activating thermal
> management,
> activating the proper keymap). Thanks a lot, Pieter and Joe!
>
> Nevertheless, reaching the stage of partitioning the  ATA-harddrives,
> I did
> not manage to find the two harddrives via mac-fdisk:
>
> Typing mac-fdisk /dev/hda brings up the lines
>
> /dev/hda
> Command (? for help):
>
> In order to get the partition table I type "p" (without quotation
> marks) at
> the end of the last line. That is what is showing up on screen:
>
> /dev/hda
>                       #                  type name   length     base
> (size)
> Dump: name /dev/hda  len 8
>
> /dev/hda1   Apple_partition_map Apple   2 @ 1     (1.0k)
> Partition map
> /dev/hda2   Apple_HFS CDROM    1246764 @ 16   (608M)    HFS
>
> Blocksize=512, number of Blocks=1246780
> DeviceType=0x1, DeviceId=0x1
>
>
>
> The device hda2 must be the cdrom containing the Gentoo Live CD, but I
> have
> no idea about what hda1 is referring to, and why it (the hda, not the
> partition table, I mean) is of such a small size.
>
> Perhaps some useful additional information (though I don't know if it
> is
> relevant at all): I have one harddrive of 152 GB and one of 70 GB,
> both of
> them showing up in Apples system profiler in one branch/directory below
> k2-sata-root, this directory being on the same level as my cdrom-drive.
>
> Any helpful hints or explanations form your side are welcome!
>
> Markus
>
>
>
>
>
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