acidd22 Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 After reading all of the documentation on this website, i successfully partitioned and installed mac os onto my pc. As a background, i'm running an SATA RAID array, and installed a seperate harddrive for Mac. THe problem i'm having is that now i have mac os installed, i can't boot into it. I've noticed a few things. My partition type is BF, not A7 or AF. I tried changing it, using partition magic's table editor, to AF. It saves it, and if i open the program up, it shows AF, until i reboot, then it reverts back to BF. Does anyone know what could be wrong? I created the partition w/ the mac os installer. the filesystem is MacOS Journaled, which i believe is HFS+. Any suggestions? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13788-partition-type-wont-save/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 1. how did you partition the drive? 2. is your sata drives supported under OS X? 3. did you follow the correct procedure in partitioning your drive in the wiki? 4. what OS version are you installing and how? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13788-partition-type-wont-save/#findComment-87923 Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidd22 Posted April 3, 2006 Author Share Posted April 3, 2006 1. how did you partition the drive?2. is your sata drives supported under OS X? 3. did you follow the correct procedure in partitioning your drive in the wiki? 4. what OS version are you installing and how? Thanks for the reply. To clarify i have a dedicated harddrive on an IDE controller, and the SATA RAID array on another controller. I used Partition Magic to clear the new hard drive and partition it. I've also used the Disk Utility to do it. I even tried using Darwin and PDisk to and mkfs.hfsplus to create the filesystem, but hte installer doesn't like that. Anyway, its an intel controller, and it doesn't seem to be supported by Mac OS. I can successfully boot if i disable the RAID in the bios, and have it boot to the mac os hard drive. I had to change the "Startup disk" in the installer to do this. I did follow the directions in the wiki, as well as the other methods i describe. All have the same results. It works fine on installation, and the next boot, however after the first boot into windows, the drive is messed up. When booting straight to the hard drive, i get a "b0 error" When booting from System COmmander it says "HFS+ partition error" and when i boot from the Windows XP menu, it just has a blank screen w/ the cursor at the top. Partition Magic shows the partition as "BAD" and PTABLES.exe and system commander shows it as partition type BF, even when i change it, save and reboot. I'm using the developer DVD, which i believe is Mac OS 10.4.1. is there a way to verify? thanks, Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13788-partition-type-wont-save/#findComment-87931 Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted April 3, 2006 Share Posted April 3, 2006 There it is. The infamous B0 error, more commonly called "body oder" error. But still don't what the hell is really is. This also happens under Linux, so it's not OS X exclusive. I'm thinking it's having a problem with the way the drives and/or controllers are configured in the bios. Rule of thumb. When you install OSX, do not rearrange the drives through the bios or partition manager. Xloader aka Darwin boot loader is already set and know exactly where those drives are and will error out if you change them around. But for now, you have to find out if the board is support under OSX. Some people have been lucky to get the sata drives working under OSX, but i'm not really sure if they mixed it with normal IDE drives. Also know that OS X originally do not support these combinations. It's either one or the other. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13788-partition-type-wont-save/#findComment-88042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidd22 Posted April 3, 2006 Author Share Posted April 3, 2006 yeah, i thought about the fact that MacOS doesn't see the other array, and it probably configures the boot in a different manner. I was hoping it would install the boot instructions on the partition, so i could point the boot loader to the partition. Then Windows is able to see both partitions and i think it messes everything up. I'm able to use Mac OS after the initial installation, while Raid is disabled. Then as soon as its enabled and gone into windows once, w/o touching the other partition, macos won't boot, even w/ raid disabled. I'm using an Abit IS7, i see other people using it, but not w/ raid. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13788-partition-type-wont-save/#findComment-88135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidd22 Posted April 5, 2006 Author Share Posted April 5, 2006 Hey, I think i may have misunderstood you when you said abotu following the instructiosn in the wiki. i followed the ihackedit instructions, not the partition wiki instructions. I see you make a partition and use dd to "image" it. Do i have to have a preinstalled filesystem and partition, or can i use a blank filesystem, or create my own? if u use deadmoo, do you reisntall over it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13788-partition-type-wont-save/#findComment-89154 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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