[Parted-maintainers] Bug#388085: AW: Bug#388085: installation on Apple G5

[EXTERNAL Brodkorb Waldemar (Tarent; AA-DG/ESW1)]

Hi,

attached are the partition map and the output of parted from etch. Same behavior, print does not recognize it.
The Mac OS X version is 10.4.4.

bye
 Waldemar 

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Sven Luther [mailto:sven.luther at wanadoo.fr] 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. September 2006 11:54
An: EXTERNAL Brodkorb Waldemar (Tarent; AA-DG/ESW1)
Cc: Sven Luther; 388085 at bugs.debian.org
Betreff: Re: Bug#388085: installation on Apple G5

reassign 388085 parted
retitle 388085 parted/libparted has trouble with mac-os-x generated partition tables
thanks
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:04:41AM +0200, EXTERNAL Brodkorb Waldemar (Tarent; AA-DG/ESW1) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can not give you the partition table or map, because I reinstalled everything again.
> I now have installed MacOSX on a clean disk, the first 200 GB free HFS partition, then 40 GB for MacOSX HFS+ case-sensitive 
> with journaling feature. After the MacOS X installation went fine, I installed Debian again, now with the latest Netinstall ISO-image
> for etch. Still the Partition Tool in the Debian Installer, did not recognize any of the existing Mac Partition Map.

Can i get a copy of the partition map of this one ? Or better yet, send it as
bug report to the parted package ? What version of mac-os-x was this anyway ?

> I switched to a shell and used "mac-fdisk" to create a Apple Bootstrap partition, a Linux Swap partition and a Linux partition for a
> big ext3 root filesystem. After that I could install the base system. The installation of the bootloader (yaboot) did not succeed.

What does the parted command line tool say you about your partition ? Can you
run it, eventually do a print in it, and paste the output here ? 

> After I rebooted the Mac and booted again into the Rescue-System I could install yaboot. Now the dual boot is working fine.
> I think the Kernel does not reread the partition map after I added the Linux partitions.

It does if you ask it about it, parted and libparted based tools should handle
this just fine. mac-fdisk is kinda obsoleted.

> Are you having automatically support for Mac Partition Maps in the Debian Installer?

Sure. But then maybe apple created some bug or incompatiblity with their
latest version of mac os x ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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GNU Parted 1.7.1
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print all                                                        
Error: The partition's data region doesn't occupy the entire partition.   
Ignore/Cancel? I                                                          

Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: mac

(parted)