Strange IMac keyboard/partitioning issues

digidocs · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 19

I've done several gentoo installs now and I thought I'd try to breathe some life into a Gen 1 IMac. Upon booting my LiveCD I've had some of the strangest issues. In bash I have to press the first letter of a command twice to get it to appear, also random extra characters are added to my letters ie: "p" become ":p". What gives?
Also, I initialized the drive partition table with 'i' in mac-fdisk. Then I partitioned the drive with bootstrap (hda2), swap (hda3) and root (hda4) partitions. That seemed to work. However mke2fs -j /dev/hda4 complains that there is not enough space on the device for a journal. This confuses me greatly. (I did remember to write changes to the table.)

Thanks for any help
-DC

ishunnedmypants · Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 7:26 pm Post subject:

How large is your hda4 partition?
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digidocs · n00b Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 19

The hda4 partition (according to mac-fdisk) is 5GB.

ishunnedmypants · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 5:38 pm Post subject:

My iMac Rev. A has a bunch of partitions before my OSX partition that contain drivers and stuff. Maybe you need those drivers to see your drive properly (just a guess). My linux filesystem is on hda13. To get those back I think you just need a Mac OS cd (my OS9 version worked or OSX, maybe 8 too).
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