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juno44
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 Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:29 pm Post subject: OSX Partition missing - cannot reinstall OSX [Solved] |
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I have recently installed Gentoo on one half of my G4 PowerBooks drive and am now trying to reinstall Mac OSX on the remaining half of the drive. When I installed Gentoo I split the drive in two, leaving the last partition (hda5) for Mac OSX. Now when I run the OSX installer it sees the two halves as a single partition and this is not available to the instilation program.
Is there some way of telling the Mac OSX setup that the drive is now split in two and that the second half of the drive is available for OSX?
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Did you use the Apple installer to partition the hd? If not, that might be the problem. |
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juno44
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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No, I used mac-fdisk from the Gentoo CD to partition the drive (as it says in the handbook). I tried partitioning the disk from the Mac CD but then had problems with my Gentoo install and had to start from scratch. I really, really don't want to have to do that again as I have finally got just about everything working and to go back to the begining now would be the final straw!! Surely there must be a way of informing the OSX installer that things have changed? I thought it was just a graphical version of mac-fdisk anyway?
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I havn't managed to find a solution to this yet. Is there a way that I can save a copy of the entire linux file structure to an external drive. The aim would be reinstall OSX using its disk manger, set up the linux partitions in the normal way and then transfere it all back accross again so that I don't have to recompile everything.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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what says
# mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda
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is the "system" entry on hda4 (I guess hda1 partition map, hda2 bootstrap, 3 gentoo and 4 OSX?) 'HFS', 'linux native' or still 'free space'?
did you use the disk utility (when you boot from the OS X it should somewhere under Installer -> Disk Utility) to format the partition (in my example hda4) in HFS+ (Journaled-apple-foobar-somewhat in the disk utility) before you tried to install OS X?
Cenrim, who is repartitioning his iBook the last 4 days again and again... 
oh, and killed his OS X, btw 
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oh, for backing your gentoo up, there are some nice descriptions in the forums, just use the search function
I simply do a copy -pvr ... OK, it isn't that simple, when you use more than 1 partion per OS like I do...
oh and btw, you can use a seperate HFS+ partition to share data between OSX and gentoo!
we mac users are lucky, we don't need to use this vfat-**** like the poor guys still half stuck with 'doze  |
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juno44
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I have now solved this. I deleted the spare patition using mac-fdisk and the recreated it with type Apple_HFS. When I went to the OSX setup I ran its disk setup utility. The partition was now visible so I erased it, formatting with HFS. This allowed me to install OSX on the partition. However, doing this knocked out Yaboot so I had to re-run the Gentoo CD, chroot across and run mkofboot -v. I now have a dual boot machine.
This means that you don't need to use the OSX disk utility to partition your disk for Gentoo - mac-fsdisk does the job just fine; that you don't need install OSX before Gentoo - providing your prepared to reinitialise yaboot; and that you don't need to place OSX before Gentoo on the drive.
For those that follow:
I'm running a G4 PowerBook, 1Ghz, 40gb/500mb/SD - A1010
My old print from mac-fdisk looked like this:
| Code: | /dev/hda
# type name length base ( size ) system
/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 64 (800.0k) NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1048576 @ 1664 (512.0M) Linux swap
/dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 37748736 @ 1050240 ( 18.0G) Linux native
/dev/hda5 Apple_Free Extra] 39341184 @ 38798976 ( 18.8G) Free space |
I deleted hda5 (d, 5p) and the created a new partition (CAPITAL C not lowercase) with a a type of Apple_HFS. I did not format the drive, just rebooted to the OSX installation disk.
The new print from mac-fdisk looks like this:
| Code: | /dev/hda
# type name length base ( size ) system
/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 64 (800.0k) NewWorld bootblock
/dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 1048576 @ 1664 (512.0M) Linux swap
/dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 37748736 @ 1050240 ( 18.0G) Linux native
/dev/hda5 Apple_HFS Apple 39341184 @ 38798976 ( 18.8G) Free space |
I then ran the Apple startup disk and using the disk utility erased the partition giving it the HFS format (initially the partition had not been visible in the drive tree but following the above steps it was displayed but was greyed out - once formatted correctly the partition was no longer displayed as greyed out). The setup program then allowed me to install OSX onto the newley formatted partition.
Once this was completed I then had to reinsert the Gentoo CD, chroot across as per the handbook and reformat the bootstrap partition, again as per the handbook (Configuring the Bootloader section). If you previously had a working Yaboot.conf you only need to run the code below. Your yaboot.conf still exists within /etc/yaboot.conf but it needs to be transfered accross to a formatted Apple_bootstrap partition:
Once this was done the system was back to normal and dual booting was enabled.
A copy of my yaboot.cof for info:
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delay=30
ofboot=hd:2
boot=/dev/hda2
device=hd:
partition=4
defaultos=linux
timeout=50
install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
#default kernel
image=/boot/gentoo
label=Gentoo
root=/dev/hda4
read-only
#emergancy genkernal kernel that starts no matter what
image=/boot/kernel-genkernel-ppc-2.6.12-gentoo-r6
label=Genkernel
root=/dev/ram0
append="real_root=/dev/hda4 init=/linuxrc"
read-only
initrd=/boot/initramfs-genkernel-ppc-2.6.12-gentoo-r6
initrd-size=8192
#Mac OSX running from partition 5
macosx=hd:5
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juno44
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 7:05 pm Post subject: Re: OSX Partition missing - cannot reinstall OSX [Solved] |
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| juno44 wrote: | I have recently installed Gentoo on one half of my G4 PowerBooks drive and am now trying to reinstall Mac OSX on the remaining half of the drive. When I installed Gentoo I split the drive in two, leaving the last partition (hda5) for Mac OSX. Now when I run the OSX installer it sees the two halves as a single partition and this is not available to the instilation program.
Is there some way of telling the Mac OSX setup that the drive is now split in two and that the second half of the drive is available for OSX? |
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