On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:27:47AM -0500, Juan Casero (FL FLC) wrote: > > Greetings Everyone - > > I have a rather messy problem with an old Powermac G3 (blue and white) > that I want to install Fedora Core 4 PPC on. The installation seems to > go through fine and it even appears that the system installs the > bootloader at the end but after a reboot the mac cannot run the boot > loader. Right now the system has an internal AHA 2940U2B scsi card that > is supposedly bootable. The layout of the disk partitions is as follows > > /dev/sda1 -> 800k Apple Boot Strap Partition this is impossible. Apple partition tables are recursive, partition 1 is and must be the partition table itself. the only way this configuration is possible is if your disk is using DOS partition tables, which are not bootable on macs. (not through the automated and standard setup methods anyway). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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