Paul Nasrat wrote:
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:55 -0700, Hugh Caley wrote:
>I also had the problem with the partition error on initial install;
>
>"The partition data region doesn´t occupy the entire partition"
>
>"Attempt to read 16-18 outside of partition on /dev/sda"
>
>
>I was able to get around it by firing up fdisk and writing a new
>partition table before doing the installation.
>
>
When you say fdisk do you mean fdisk or pdisk?
If you used fdisk you'll have created msdos style partition tables.
Sure, but then I let Fedora write it's own. Or actually, I used Disk
Druid to write the table below.
>After that, the installation went smoothly. However, on reboot, I
only
>get the flashing Mac "looking for a boot disk" graphic.
>
>Boot with cmd-option-o-f; printenv.
>
>boot-device /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0:,\\:tbxi hd:,\\:tbxi
>
>
Can you boot of CD to rescue mode
boot cd:,\\:tbxi
linux rescue
and give the output of parted /dev/hda print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38154.375 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem
Flags
1 0.031 7.84 primary hfs
boot
2 7.844 37126.779 primary ext3
3 37126.844 38154.375 primary linux-swap
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary
Paul
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