From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:50:36 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Tim Wojtulewicz Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Install on a Pismo (going bad) Message-ID: <20000404125036.E31973@suse.de> Reply-To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, Apr 04, Tim Wojtulewicz wrote: > > I've run into a few problems with installing LinuxPPC 2000 on a Pismo > powerbook. First, the keyboard isn't recognized by the installer. > I've tried hooking up a USB keyboard from a blue and white G3, but it > says that the device wasn't responding and that is was giving up. Is > there a workaround of some sort for this? > > Second (the more major problem), is that somehow the partition table > on my hard drive got all screwed up. Now the LinuxPPC installer > tells me it can't read the partition table, and doesn't understand > where my hard drive is. I tried booting back into MacOS and using a > multitude of tools to reformat the drive (or just recreate the > partition table), with no luck. Any suggestions? Boot from the MacOS CD, use Drive Setup, create one big MacOS partition, this will/should clean up the partition table. Then create 4 partitions, one for MacOS, one Linuxboot partition in HFS Format, one swap and a Linux Partition. Try the latest Kernel from Ben or our suseboot.hqx file at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/BETA Finally, send me the output of ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/BETA/suse_hw_info.sh. Thanks. Gruss Olaf -- $ man 1 current_release BUGS Users never read manuals... ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/