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

[Christoph Wegener]

Hey Markus,

Just a little hint. mac-fdisk acts like fdisk if you append the -l
parameter to the command line, like:

mac-fdisk -l

and list all hard drives and partitions available to the linux kernel.

Christoph

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 17:17 +0200, 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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