billbmsn Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 Help needed (of course). I started with an Acer Aspire One with XP loaded from the factory on its 160GB drive. Installed Ubuntu 8.10 with grub bootloader. This works fine as dual boot. Trying now to install OSx86 (either Kalyway or iATKOS) and am foiled at the Disk Utility step. Can't seem to get the proper partition created for OS X. I set up an unallocated partition using Gparted inside Ubuntu. OS X install Disk Utility sees all the partitons far differently from Gparted. When I go to erase the intended partition for OS X, selecting MAC OSX Journaled Extended, it ends up showing the same previous label (dsk04) and as FAT and OS X won't install to that. Strangley, when I boot back into Ubuntu and look at the partitions with Gparted, I see the HFS+ partition on 04. See the images below. The first is what what Gparted sees. Next is what OS X saw - note I have the wrong partition highlighted in screenshot OS X Disk Utility. The intended partition for OS X is 04, shown as HFS+ in Gparted but not in OS X Disk Utility. Through all my repeated efforts, the partitions seem a bit mooched, but as XP and Ubuntu work fine, I'm reluctant to start over. I'm aware of the unused freespace. I added a 3rd screenshot showing the last attempt. I started with a FAT 32 partition, no freespace. Erased that to OSX Journaled Extended. It appeared to leave it as FAT, as before. I ran First Aid and got what is shown. HELP! TIA, Bill Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/140576-osx-mutiboot-install-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbmsn Posted December 11, 2008 Author Share Posted December 11, 2008 Additional info... I see I'm not alone..Other have had the same problem with no direct solutuon.. http://www.insanelymac.com/lofiversion/ind...hp/t100245.html http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=86569 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/140576-osx-mutiboot-install-problem/#findComment-995811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 You can install Ubuntu in Primary partition not extended as last SO and then add to menu.lst the line commands to boot the 3 systems. Giorgio Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/140576-osx-mutiboot-install-problem/#findComment-997997 Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbmsn Posted December 23, 2008 Author Share Posted December 23, 2008 Thanks, Giorgio, that did it. I formatted them all as priamry and it worked just fine. Bill Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/140576-osx-mutiboot-install-problem/#findComment-1011019 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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