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alvin777

Oct 7 2009, 02:45 PM

Hi. I'm trying to install Chameleon 2 RC 3 to the USB flash drive using Terminal on the latest Leopard so that I can used that flash drive to boot my setup but this is what happens (I've entered my password. It says the resource is busy):

osxusers-mac-pro:i386 osxuser$ ls
boot boot1f32 boot1he cdboot fdisk
boot0 boot1h boot1hp chain0
osxusers-mac-pro:i386 osxuser$ sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/disk5s2
Password:
fdisk: /dev/disk5s2: Resource busy <--------------------------------------------------------------------------[the error ]
osxusers-mac-pro:i386 osxuser$

What's the fix for this? I really need to install Snow Leopard on my GA-965P-DS3 rev.1 and 4870 1G Palit.
Thank you in advance.

Gbu

MacUser2525

Oct 7 2009, 05:09 PM

QUOTE (alvin777 @ Oct 7 2009, 11:45 AM)

Hi. I'm trying to install Chameleon 2 RC 3 to the USB flash drive using Terminal on the latest Leopard so that I can used that flash drive to boot my setup but this is what happens (I've entered my password. It says the resource is busy):

osxusers-mac-pro:i386 osxuser$ ls
boot boot1f32 boot1he cdboot fdisk
boot0 boot1h boot1hp chain0
osxusers-mac-pro:i386 osxuser$ sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/disk5s2
Password:
fdisk: /dev/disk5s2: Resource busy <--------------------------------------------------------------------------[the error ]
osxusers-mac-pro:i386 osxuser$

What's the fix for this? I really need to install Snow Leopard on my GA-965P-DS3 rev.1 and 4870 1G Palit.
Thank you in advance.

Gbu

Looks like you need to unmount the drive partition before issuing the command, open Diskutil select the partition then unmount icon or from reading the diskutil man page something like this should work from the command line.

CODE

sudo diskutil umount /dev/disk5s2

Tony Hock

Oct 21 2009, 06:10 AM

You need to put an r in front of disk, so it would look like this for you:

CODE

sudo fdisk -f boot0 -u -y /dev/rdisk5s2

Now it will work.