pdisk & G4

pdisk & G4

[Iain Sandoe]

Hi,

pdisk 0.7a4 (MacOS version) does not appear to run successfully on
G4/sawtooth (that is, it runs without crashing but reports no devices -
every ATA device shows as 'not ready').

This is the latest version on LinuxPPC 2000 and a quick check of the Apple
Developer site did not reveal a newer version.  It's an Apple program.

Does someone have the sources - or is there an alternative (OK - I will use
the new Apple Disk Setup  which gets me most of the way - but pdisk is jolly
useful for checking that everything is OK).

TIA,
Iain.

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Re: pdisk & G4

[Hollis Blanchard]

Iain Sandoe wrote:
>
> pdisk 0.7a4 (MacOS version) does not appear to run successfully on
> G4/sawtooth (that is, it runs without crashing but reports no devices -
> every ATA device shows as 'not ready').

I'm pretty sure Mac OS pdisk has been broken for quite some time now,
although possibly only with IDE devices. I've hardly ever used it though
so I'm not sure.

The author is on this list so I expect he'll know...

-Hollis

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Re: pdisk & G4

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

>pdisk 0.7a4 (MacOS version) does not appear to run successfully on
>G4/sawtooth (that is, it runs without crashing but reports no devices -
>every ATA device shows as 'not ready').
>
>This is the latest version on LinuxPPC 2000 and a quick check of the Apple
>Developer site did not reveal a newer version.  It's an Apple program.
>
>Does someone have the sources - or is there an alternative (OK - I will use
>the new Apple Disk Setup  which gets me most of the way - but pdisk is jolly
>useful for checking that everything is OK).

The MacOS version of pdisk is bogus. The recommended practice is to:

 - Use Drive Setup to create the MacOS partitions, leave empty space for
Linux partitions
 - Boot the Linux installer
 - Use pdisk from the linux installer to create the Linux partitions
 - Reboot the installer (may not be needed in all cases, but I prefer
this way)
 - Complete install

Ben.


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