can't boot fresh install
G.Wolfe Woodbury
ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us
Sun Aug 9 12:02:42 UTC 2009
On 08/09/2009 04:17 AM, Alan Evans wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Howard Wilkinson wrote:
>> Alan Evans wrote:
>>
>>>> Just did a fresh install of F11 on a P4. The SATA hard disk was
>>>> repatriated from a broken iMac.
<snip>
> I'm still confused about how anaconda can possibly mount a partition
> (two, including the boot partition) when fdisk thinks the partition
> table is invalid.
The kernel is capable of dealing with HFS (Apple) partitions!
I suspect that you failed to zero the MBR before moving the drive from
the Mac to the Linux box. If you use the hfsutils or hfsplus-tools
package you'll get a set of tools that can "see" the partitions for that
drive. Thes tools are not installed by default. ("yum info *hfs*")
Good luck.
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