Ubuntu/Kubuntu on Mac G5.

[Brian Durant]

On 22. jan 2006, at 20.50, Larry Grover wrote:

> To my eyes your yaboot.conf file looks OK, *except* that I think  
> your hard drives should probably be sda and sdb, not sdb and sdc.  
> Information from gparted for each of your drives would help, or  
> else the output from fdisk:
>
> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc
>
> If you can fix your yaboot.conf file, you can install yaboot using  
> the "ybin" command.  This may be as simple as changing "sdb" to  
> "sda" and "sdc" to "sdb", but let's see some information on how  
> your drives are partitioned first.

OK, here is the output:

ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
/dev/sda
         #                    type name                  length    
base      ( size )  system
/dev/sda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @  
1         ( 31.5k)  Partition map
/dev/sda2         Apple_Bootstrap untitled                1954 @  
64        (977.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
/dev/sda3         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled           150386719 @  
2018      ( 71.7G)  Linux native
/dev/sda4         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                 5912751 @  
150388737 (  2.8G)  Linux swap

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=156301488
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0


ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb
         #                    type name                  length    
base      ( size )  system
/dev/sdb1     Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @  
1         ( 31.5k)  Partition map
/dev/sdb2              Apple_Free                       262144 @  
64        (128.0M)  Free space
/dev/sdb3               Apple_HFS Untitled           319910838 @  
262208    (152.5G)  HFS
/dev/sdb4              Apple_Free                           10 @  
320173046 (  5.0k)  Free space

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=320173056
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0

ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc
ubuntu at ubuntu:~$

Hope this helps. Please advise as to what I should do to get Ubuntu  
on track.

Cheers,

Brian