Trouble Mouting/Formating Partition

[killians31]

Hey guys,

 

I have been prepping my laptop (Asus G50v) for the installation of OSX 10.6. I seem to be having some issues when trying to format, or even mount my primary partition in which i set aside for OSX. When i format the partition to extended journaled file system (HFS+), it still says that the partition is a MS-DOS file system... Strangely enough, when i boot into Gparted, i see the partition as HFS+.

 

I am currently running four different operating systems, here is my partition table:

 

sda1 | Windows Seven

--------sda2-----------

sda5 | /boot Ubuntu

sda6 | /Ubuntu

sda7 | /boot Fedora

sda8 | /Fedora

sda9 | /Backtrack

-------------------------

sda3 | Shared Drive

sda4 | Snow Leopard

 

Could it be that the partition in which i set aside for Snow Leopard is so far away from the MBR, that it doesnt want to work?

 

I currently have the retail_disc.dmg file on a portable hard drive (which disc utility recognizes, and will mount).

 

Any help is GREATLY appreciated!

 

Thanks,

Ben

[killians31]

Even when i try to do a Zero format, i still get this same error when trying to restore the retail disc to the partition:

 

Could not change the partition type for /dev/disk0s4 - error - 5343

 

Any ideas?

[srs5694]

In Ubuntu, try using the fdisk utility to set the partition type code of /dev/sda4 to 0xAF, then use the Linux mkfs.hfsplus utility to put an HFS+ filesystem on it. In theory, Mac OS should then be happy with it. (You might want to enable journaling from within Mac OS, though.)

[killians31]

Thanks for the reply Rod,

 

I actually was about to get it working by using the disk utility within ubuntu to format the partition to 0xAF, and it worked out great!