Paritition Problem Installing YDL

Guest · Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 6:02 pm Post subject: Paritition Problem Installing YDL

I am trying to install YDL 3.0.1 on a G4 running Mac OS X 10.3. I am
having a problem creating a suitable boot partition.

The current situation is this: when I first partitioned the disk I
created seven partitions. One is being used by Mac OS X. The others,
called startup, swap, opt, home, data, and root, were intended for
Linux.
The partition used by OS X is formatted HFS+. Startup is formatted
HFS. The others are all UFS.

There are two things wrong with this. FIrst, the partitions are in the
wrong order. I did not know when I did it that the partition for
yaboot, startup in this case, should be partition two (after the
partition map). It is actually partition three.

The other is that the startup partition is too big. I gave it 51.2
Meg. When I ran the YDL install I got a message saying that there was
no partition small enough for yaboot, the limit being 10 Meg. It also
said that if I went ahead with the install I would have no bootable
partition. So, I stopped.

I tried to use pdisk to split the startup partition. I ran the
command:

pdisk /dev/disk1 -splitPartition 3 20480 start2 Apple_UFS

and got the error:

pdisk: Can't write block 0 to file (-1) (Bad file descriptor)
pdisk: Can't write block 1 to file (-1) (Bad file descriptor)
pdisk: Can't write block 2 to file (-1) (Bad file descriptor)
pdisk: Can't write block 3 to file (-1) (Bad file descriptor)
pdisk: Can't write block 4 to file (-1) (Bad file descriptor)
pdisk: Can't write block 5 to file (-1) (Bad file descriptor)
pdisk: Can't write block 6 to file (-1) (Bad file descriptor)
pdisk: Can't write block 7 to file (-1) (Bad file descriptor)
pdisk: Can't write block 8 to file (-1) (Bad file descriptor)
pdisk: Can't write block 9 to file (-1) (Bad file descriptor)
pdisk: Can't write block 10 to file (-1) (Bad file descriptor)
4

The partition table was not changed.

I then tried deleting the partition, with the idea of recreating it.
That failed with the same error.

Does anyone have a workaround for this short of wiping out the whole
disk and starting over? Would something like Partition Magic, or some
Open Source equivelant, work (and if so, what)?

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