d11wtq Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Devastated. I've been using OSx86 for the past few days on my laptop with great pleasure. I've spent time tweaking it and even started porting BSD's version of ReiserFS across to OSX. Because I used the deadmoo image I only had a 6GB filesystem to use and I wanted the 14GB I had available. I'm hoping someone can help. What I did was what I read in a lot of tutorials. I created a 14GB primary partition on another disk. The I booted into my OSX (10.4.1) and opened disk utility. I selected "Erase" on the blank partition I'd created... this presumably formats the drive. It worked and OSX mounted the disk itself once it was done. I then proceeded to use the "Restore" utility to copy the data from my current 6GB system, onto the new 14GB space. It took over 30 mins to copy but it did copy... I could mount the disk and view the files. Next I rebooted into Linux and imaged the new partition across to my old one using GNU/Parted. It worked... again I can mount this 14GB drive and view the files. Problem. When I boot the drive all the happens is I get a black screen with this text (or similar) at the top: This hardware configuration is not compatible with Darwin/x86 That's it... it just does that. WTF? It's the same system. What did the disk restore do to my files to cause this and how can I fix it? Luckily my linux kernel has write support to HFS+ so I can update files if necessary. Many thanks from a very upset d11 NOTE: I had run Maxxuss patch before this too but that was 2 days back and several reboots ago. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10414-i-want-to-cry-i-just-broke-my-osx/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 did you make the restored partition bootable afterwards? Using diskpart or fdisk or something? I think restoring the partition image is fine, but you run into problems dealing with the MBR and stuff... Good Luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10414-i-want-to-cry-i-just-broke-my-osx/#findComment-65024 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggman Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Seems to me the best thing to do would be to shrink the partition as much as possible. Then get a bootable 10.4.3 DVD and reinstall to a new partition. There's this neat feature that lets you port all your old settings and stuff from an old Mac on another partition. Then you could delete the old one. Good luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10414-i-want-to-cry-i-just-broke-my-osx/#findComment-65031 Share on other sites More sharing options...
d11wtq Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 I'm using GRUB as a bootloader which is exactly how I'd done it before. The first successful setup I did I simply imaged the 1st partition from the deadmoo image onto the spare partition on my drive and set GRUB up to handle this. It's flagged as bootable and has label type af too GRUB points to the correct place since I get the Darwin error but nothing else happens. Does the fact that the drive no longer shows as "tiger-x86" make a difference? It's just called "disk0s4". I'll try copying the first 446 bytes from the deadmoo image onto this and see what happens Thanks for the help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10414-i-want-to-cry-i-just-broke-my-osx/#findComment-65035 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 You can try booting from the developer DVD Apple sent you, and running the Startup Disk utility. Perhaps if you select that partition, it will boot afterwards. Also, you said disk0s4 - I thought that OS X didn't like being on a disk with that many partitions... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10414-i-want-to-cry-i-just-broke-my-osx/#findComment-65055 Share on other sites More sharing options...
d11wtq Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 OS X was running perfectly fine from it before... weird. It's got something to do with the disk label is my guess... I wonder how I can try changing the disk name from inside linux? I'll just have to go back to 6GB again otherwise. I don't have a DVD, all I have is the deadmoo image Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10414-i-want-to-cry-i-just-broke-my-osx/#findComment-65060 Share on other sites More sharing options...
d11wtq Posted February 28, 2006 Author Share Posted February 28, 2006 OK I'm back up and running from scratch on the 4th partition (disk0s4) like I was before. 6GB again, just finished patching. I've actually managed to get my external USB Hard disk to boot this deadmoo image before without too much trying (i also run linux from a USB drive on occasion). Still not sure why it didn't boot at 14GB... I'll have to check try a few things out on my external drive before making that mistake again The drive still mounts and has all the files but it shows different properties under disk utility. For example, it says that there are no owners. I ran a repair on it but said everything was fine... hmm... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10414-i-want-to-cry-i-just-broke-my-osx/#findComment-65122 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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