[GLLUG] Mandrake 9.1/PPC

[Sean]

Did you try leaving a 1M of free space at the beginning of the disk? 
before your first partition? If that doesnt work then try an hfs 
partition. BootX is essentially a small Blessed System file that lives on 
its own partition. 

Also use like pdisk/fdisk to make sure there arent any extra partitions 
floating around, HFS seems to like to put drivers and stuff on partitions. 



On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Mike Szumlinski wrote:

> Yeah, if I use the bootX bootloader, the installer loads off the CD 
> just fine.  When I get to the partitioning scheme, I can't do anything. 
>   No matter what partition layout I use it always tells me that the 
> system can't boot without a bootstrap partition and there isn't enough 
> space (1MB needed) to create the bootstrap partition.  So basically, I 
> can't do anything because I can't even get the install to start
> 
> -Mike
> 
> On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 12:37 PM, Sean wrote:
> 
> > woah, there is a mandrake PPC? sweet! I was waiting for YellowDog..
> >
> > I don't think you need or really want a bootloader. OF should detect it
> > just fine without one IIRC. I thought you only needed it for the old
> > world rom boxes. Can you hold down the option key at boot and
> > see the linux stuff as a bootable option? 
> 
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