HFS+ Partition Error (Yes, i already tried the fix)

[kingace]

Hi all,

 

I just finished an install of 10.5.2 (much to my disbelief) using Zephyroth's AMD installer.

 

When I initially booted up, my computer reacted like there was no bootloader installed at all, so I restored Vista's, and then tried to use EasyBCD to add Mac. At this point, I was getting a Chain booting error. Eventually, I gave up and reinstalled, this time selecting all the bootloader options.

 

When I rebooted after a succesful install, I was greeted by a corrupted version of Vista's bootloader. I once again restored it using a Vista install dvd, and then got the HFS+ Partition Error. So, I checked the forums, and found that I needed to make sure that my partition was active, primary (rather than logical), and had an id of af. I converted the partition to primary, made it active, and set its id to af. None of this worked, so I tried another fix:

 

fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0

 

After I did this, I once again had a corrupted bootloader, so I once again restored, and then re-added the Mac entry to EasyBCD, and still I'm getting the same error.

 

I've never come this close to a full installation of Leopard, so I would really appreciate it if someone offered me some advice.

 

Thanks in Advance

[norcalrivercat]

Have you tried booting into leopard with the Zeph disk still inside? The disk can act as a bootloader, it's possible the bootloader didn't install correctly. What are your specs? Also what options did you select when you installed?