I read and enjoyed your Installing Fedora Core on the Mac mini article. I can't see how this article's instructions would differ when attempting to install FC4 on my QuickSilver PowerMac. So I attempted to do so, with some frustrating inconsistencies.
During installation, before I even get to the partition setup portion of the installer, I receive an error saying, "The partition's data region doesn't occupy the entire partition." I try clicking ignore a few times, and then I receive the error, "Attempt to read sectors 16-18 outside of partition on /dev/hda". Clicking ignore just repeats the error. Finally, I click cancel, and the process continues, although before I can start setting up the partition table, I receive an error that says, "The partition table on device hda was unreadable. To create new partitions it must be initialized, causing the loss of ALL DATA on this drive. This operation will override any previous installation choices about which drives to ignore. Would you like to initialize this drive, erasing ALL DATA?"
The partition was in good working order from OSX's point of view. Further, after a complete reformat and reinstall of Mac OSX, where everything is supposedly fresh, I still get these same error messages. So, effectively, I cannot set up the dual-boot. What's going on?
And while I'm providing feedback, I have one more beef. I have installed FC3 for x86 well over a dozen times; I am familiar with the installer. And when it asks questions about erasing all data, it DOES NOT take any action until the installer setup is complete and actual installation is ready to begin. Inconsistent with that previous behavior, this last-mentioned error/warning box wiped out my hard drive's partition table IMMEDIATELY, as soon as I clicked "Yes". I was going through a dry run and planned on aborting the installation before it was done asking all of its questions. Because of this inconsistent behavior, I unintentionally lost A LOT of data on my Mac volumes. Needless to say, I'm livid about this, and if anyone has a recommendation on how to retrieve my data from this volume (I have since then not reinitialized my drive or done anything to it, so the data is theoretically intact on a drive with a wiped-out partition table), I would IMMENSELY appreciate it..
Joshua Curtiss
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 20:28 -0500, Joshua Curtiss wrote:
Please do not send HTML mail in future..
I read and enjoyed your Installing Fedora Core on the Mac mini article. I can't see how this article's instructions would differ when attempting to install FC4 on my QuickSilver PowerMac. So I attempted to do so, with some frustrating inconsistencies.
Please check bugzilla and mailing list archives before posting this has been covered several times - including earlier in the week.
During installation, before I even get to the partition setup portion of the installer, I receive an error saying, "The partition's data region doesn't occupy the entire partition." I try clicking ignore a few times, and then I receive the error, "Attempt to read sectors 16-18 outside of partition on /dev/hda".
This is a known bug with workarounds can you try with one of the following solutions:
1) Use an update image:
http://people.redhat.com/clumens/mac-parted-update/updates.img
Take the updates.img and use dd to write it to a USB key, then use that with "linux updates" at the yaboot boot: prompt.
You will need to dd it to the entire device, so make sure you backup whatever may be on the USB drive first. You can dosomething like this:
dd if=updates.img of=/dev/sda
Replace /dev/sda with the name of your USB key drive, though.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163263 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159047
2) Rename the unnamed Apple_Free partitions
Boot installer to first screen - switch to tty2 (Ctrl-Alt F2)
cd /tmp wget http://people.redhat.com/pnasrat/pdisk chmod 755 pdisk ./pdisk <disk> n (Change name) (freespace partition no) Extra w q
Paul
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 06:39 -0400, Paul Nasrat wrote:
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 20:28 -0500, Joshua Curtiss wrote:
"Attempt to read sectors 16-18 outside of partition on /dev/hda".
This is a known bug with workarounds can you try with one of the following solutions:
- Use an update image:
- Rename the unnamed Apple_Free partitions
Is this fixed in the current FC4 errata? Would it also suffice to just install from my FC4+Pegasos+updates tree on zeniv.uk.linux.org?
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 23:55 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 06:39 -0400, Paul Nasrat wrote:
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 20:28 -0500, Joshua Curtiss wrote:
"Attempt to read sectors 16-18 outside of partition on /dev/hda".
This is a known bug with workarounds can you try with one of the following solutions:
- Use an update image:
- Rename the unnamed Apple_Free partitions
Is this fixed in the current FC4 errata? Would it also suffice to just install from my FC4+Pegasos+updates tree on zeniv.uk.linux.org?
A parted erratum was released IIRC. You might want to confirm that.
Any tree building and linking against that library should be fine.
Paul
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 23:47 -0400, Paul Nasrat wrote:
This is a known bug with workarounds can you try with one of the following solutions:
- Use an update image:
- Rename the unnamed Apple_Free partitions
Is this fixed in the current FC4 errata? Would it also suffice to
just
install from my FC4+Pegasos+updates tree on zeniv.uk.linux.org?
A parted erratum was released IIRC. You might want to confirm that.
The errata that clumens updated does fix it (I've checked this a little after fc-4 got released)
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 22:37 +1000, Colin Charles wrote:
The errata that clumens updated does fix it (I've checked this a little after fc-4 got released)
OK, then the install tree at ftp://zeniv.uk.linux.org/pub/people/dwmw2/fc4-pegasos ought to work.
I've also got the single boot CD image for {Mac,CHRP} {32,64}-bit working -- I might do another updated FC4 with that.