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Re: booting darwin

partition table attached

Patrick Strasser wrote:

> Vince Turzo schrieb:
>
>> I have Windows and Linux on hd0 and Darwin on hd1; the boot partiion
>> is on
>> (hd1,0) and root is on (hd1,1). Grub does not boot Darwin with or
>> without
>> the makeactive command. I get the same "Load error
>> ..............................=>". If I use the tab key to look at the
>> partition information, for (hd1,0) "Filesystem type unknown,
>> partition type
>> 0xab" and for (hd1,1) "Filesystem type unknown, partion type 0xa8". With
>> rootnoverify (hd1,0)/(tab) or (hd1,1)/(tab) the message is "cannot mount
>> selected partition".
>
>
> This Grub errors are ok, Grub does not know how to handle this flavour
> of UFS. Perhaps this could be added to Grub... I'll post it at the
> Grub mailing List
>
> Now let's check everything, just in case.
>
> You had hd(1,1) in your grub.conf. This should be hd(1,0) of course,
> this is the special boot partition, it then searches for a a8
> partition and prepares the system for booting. Grub can't do this.
>
> Note: You can enter the lines of your grub.conf by hand in Grub
> command mode. To boot you have to add the "boot" command. You don't
> have to change grub.conf to try things. This is a big advantage of Grub.
>
> One problem I could not analyze until now is position problems. Maybe
> on of your two partitions is behind cylinder 1024 or over 8 GB. Please
> add uptput of "fdisk -l /dev/hda" and "fdisk -l /dev/hdb" under Linux.
> Maybe you have to move the a8 partition (which is _really_ small) onto
> your first disk to get Darwin booting.
>
> Patrick
>
> ps: Please don't top-qote anf full-qote. This makes reading difficult.
> Quote under the Lines you are referring to and delete quoted text not
> belonging to your reply. See http://learn.to/edit_messages
Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 77622 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1025 12086 5575248 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 41557 42539 495432 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 42540 77622 17681832 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 12087 41556 14852880 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/hdb: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 39683 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 20 10048+ ab Darwin boot
/dev/hdb2 21 5099 2559816 a8 Darwin UFS
/dev/hdb3 5100 39683 17430336 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 5100 39683 17430304+ 83 Linux
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 >RE: booting darwin (From: "Vince Turzo" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: booting darwin (From: Patrick Strasser <email@hidden>)



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