itsme185 Posted September 2, 2007 Share Posted September 2, 2007 System specs- AMD 4400+ x2 AM2 (SSE2. SSE3 etc etc) Asus m2n vm dh 2x 1GB 800mhz dual channel Intergrated 6150 grpahics Sata 250GB-Windows IDE 80GB-Trying to boot osX Hay guys So iv got the tiger-x86-flat.img Booted in VMware fine.. went to run/cmd typed diskpart select disk 0 delete partition (deleted all) Create partition primary size=7000 id=af in partition magic itshowed up, i said the partition to active. I now have a 7GB AF partition and the rest is unolacted space after the partition. run DD in windows through dos dd if=C:\tiger-x86-flat.img of=\\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition1 bs=32256 skip=1 --progress it did its thing. Tried to boot up through OSx and it said HFS partition error? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I feel asthough iv done it all correctly? Please help Cheers guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skitals Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 Why not use a more recent install dvd? That image is about 2 years old. One thing you might want to try is unplugging your sata drive. Even though the correct partition is active, i believe the darwin bootloader will then try to boot disk0. Depending on what channel your sata is on, it could be causing problems. On my setup I have vista on disk 0 partition 1, and osx on disk 0 partition 2. I use the vista bootloader with chain0 to dual boot, so partition 1 is my active boot partition. Last night I used an installer DVD to install a driver, which set partition 2 to active. Even though I have a proper installation there, it gave me the same hfs+ error. I still don't really understand why, but my impression is that is tries booting off the first device/partition regardless, which in my case was disk 1 partition 0. Obviously in my case vista isn't an hfs partition, hence the error. I just set partition 1 back to active and everything worked again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lollett Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 Try looking at this post as it got me past the HFS+ error... http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=39253 Hope it helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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