evoblade Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 I tried to install the Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD and everything went smoothly until I tried to boot my OSX install. It is giving me a "HFS+ PARTITION ERROR" message on boot. I have Win XP and OpenSUSE 10.3 64-bit installed on my first HDD and OSX installed on my second HDD. During install I used the disk utility to erase the partition on the second HDD and make it "HFS, Journaled". I don't know what the partition scheme is (I assume its MBR since I don't recall changing it). The install guide for 10.5.2 indicated that I could use MBR, unlike previous versions (apparently). The same error appears whether I use the GRUB bootloader or select the second HDD as the boot drive in my BIOS. My system config is the following: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R Nvidia 8800GT 2 GB ram 750 GB SATA HDD with 2 primary and 1 logical partition 40 GB SATA HDD with 1 primary partition (OSX) All are on HCL, so that shouldn't be an issue. If I missed any important info, please let me know and I will provide it. This is my first attempt at a Leopard install, so I'm a newbie at this. I have installed many different flavors of Linux and Windows over the past 15 years, though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/117319-leopard-wont-boot-edited-title/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
evoblade Posted July 23, 2008 Author Share Posted July 23, 2008 hmm... so this forum's search function didn't turn up anything useful, but Google gave me this: http://www.insanelymac.com/lofiversion/index.php/t2331.html http://www.insanelymac.com/lofiversion/index.php/t30858.html I'll give these a shot tonight when I get home. PS. What's up with the search feature? I had to go to the second page to find anything remotely related, but the first 2 links in google gave me two pertinent threads. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/117319-leopard-wont-boot-edited-title/#findComment-831131 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navin R. Johnson Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 I tried to install the Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD and everything went smoothly until I tried to boot my OSX install. It is giving me a "HFS+ PARTITION ERROR" message on boot. I have Win XP and OpenSUSE 10.3 64-bit installed on my first HDD and OSX installed on my second HDD. During install I used the disk utility to erase the partition on the second HDD and make it "HFS, Journaled". I don't know what the partition scheme is (I assume its MBR since I don't recall changing it). The install guide for 10.5.2 indicated that I could use MBR, unlike previous versions (apparently). The same error appears whether I use the GRUB bootloader or select the second HDD as the boot drive in my BIOS. My system config is the following: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R Nvidia 8800GT 2 GB ram 750 GB SATA HDD with 2 primary and 1 logical partition 40 GB SATA HDD with 1 primary partition (OSX) All are on HCL, so that shouldn't be an issue. If I missed any important info, please let me know and I will provide it. This is my first attempt at a Leopard install, so I'm a newbie at this. I have installed many different flavors of Linux and Windows over the past 15 years, though. FOR GRUB2 treat your XP/Vista and OS X as Multiboot aware Systems: This I know works seemless for Debian Sid and OS X on separate drives with GRUB2 running from Debian with the following instructions: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=828196 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/117319-leopard-wont-boot-edited-title/#findComment-831594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
evoblade Posted July 29, 2008 Author Share Posted July 29, 2008 I tried the advice I linked above. Specifically, checked that partition type is set to AF (it was) and ran the fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0 command from the dvd boot disk terminal. I will try checking the grub settings next. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/117319-leopard-wont-boot-edited-title/#findComment-838003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
evoblade Posted July 30, 2008 Author Share Posted July 30, 2008 As far as GRUB goes, I think it is a red-herring as far as my problem is concerned. The computer won't boot even when the OSX drive is set as the first boot drive (in BIOS). What am I missing here? Also, going to check PARTEDIT again.. Does Active=Bootable? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/117319-leopard-wont-boot-edited-title/#findComment-838688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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