MPT Version 1.05, Firmware Version 1.08.03.00 Target 0 Unit 0 Disk ATA ST3360320AS M 703282608 Blocks, 360 GB SATA device PhyNum 0
Alright, it seems to be a disk size problem. Didn't expect this. If i create a root partition of 80GB on this drive, it boots and works. The machine was apparently sold with a 250GB drives as a maximum size. So my question is: can i only use the disk up to 250GB or can i create a boot partition of 80GB, swap of 8GB and use the space beyond in a third partition? OBP version is 4.25.9.
128 gig wraparound issue, perhaps? On machines that only support booting from older FFS filesystems, I usually just have a small initial partition for loading the kernel, then root on the larger partition covering the rest of the disk.
John