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Re: booting darwin

Francois Dupoux wrote:
Hi,

I have installed Darwin x86 (version 602) on my computer, and I cannot boot
it... The installation seems to be finished successfully, and it's impossible
to boot the OS.

Ok

Here are more details about what I did:
1. I created two partitions (with partition magic):
/dev/hdb2 == /dev/disk1s2 == 10 MiB
/dev/hdb3 == /dev/disk1s3 == 3 GiB
I changed the identifier of these partitions with fdisk under Linux (t to
change the ID, then w to write MBR)

What do you mean by "identifier"? Partition type? What exactly did you do?

Then I run the installation from the bootable CD-Rom. [...]
/dev/hdb
/dev/hdb1 = extended partition (contains hdb5 which is reiserfs)
/dev/hdb2 = boot for darwin (primary partition)
/dev/hdb3 = root for darwin (primary partition)

Seems to be ok.

My computer boots from /dev/hda. Grub is installed on this disk. WinXP and
Linux work well.
I added an entry for darwin, in grub.conf:

title Darwin
rootnoverify (hd1,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1

I had quite the same entry. This is the canonical way to chainload a not supported OS. I'm not shure if makeactive is necessary or even wrong. Try to comment it out.

BTW, the complete grub.conf would be helpfull.

The first thing you should do when you have problems with grub: command mode. When you got the menue mode, hit c. Then you should see some kind of text shell. A help command is available. You can use tab-completition as well. Try to find your Darwin partitions.
You can identify them by "looking inside" the partitions:
rootnoverify (hd<tab>1,<tab>1)/<tab>
you should see some directories.

Another question:
Can darwin be installed inside an extended partition (like /dev/hda5) ? Linux
can, Windows can't.

The boot partition has to be a primary partition. I installed the system partition into a extended partition, and that worked. But I think there are issues with 8GB boundaries and the like (simple boot loader).

Patrick

--
Engineers motto: cheap, good, fast: choose any two
Patrick Strasser <past at sbox dot tugraz dot at>
Student of Telematik, Techn. University Graz, Austria
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