cannon_dt Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 (edited) Hi, I had a SL hackintosh on my Linux machine running thanks to a lot of help from this forum. Recently I had a HD crash and have had to replace the drive and now I am in the process of trying to get mavericks installed. I tried to restore a backup that I had of my SL but that is failing (stuck of waiting for root device, no surprises there!!), so I decided to get mavericks afresh. So I made a USB installer with the Retail image downloaded from App store and using #####. Now when I tried to install, I am unable to select my existing hfs+ partition (this is where I tried to restore my SL image). This is a partition done using gparted using my Linux host. When I tried to select this as the destination for mavericks install, the installer complained - "cannot startup os x from this disk". I tried to get into disk utilities to erase this partition and reformat but there I get "Volume erase failed - mediakit reports no such partition". All I want to do is to install mavericks on my existing hfs+ partition ( I even reformatted that partition using gparted to hfs+ anew but still the installer would not accept that as a valid destination). I am stuck at the installer itself not knowing if this attempt is going to work, so please do help. Ananth My disk topography: (sda3 is where I am trying to get mavericks installed) Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0009c773 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 195311615 97654784 83 Linux /dev/sda2 195313662 1722839039 763762689 5 Extended Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sda3 1722839040 1953523711 115342336 af HFS / HFS+ /dev/sda5 195313664 203216895 3951616 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 203218944 593842175 195311616 83 Linux /dev/sda7 593844224 1013274623 209715200 83 Linux EDIT: Ok, when I selected my HDD, it did tell me that the partitions cannot be modified as it uses MBR. Is there any workaround for this? Edited September 2, 2014 by cannon_dt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cannon_dt Posted September 4, 2014 Author Share Posted September 4, 2014 I managed to resolve this with the MBR patch, so this is is not a problem anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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