Focher Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 Now that I am using the Chameleon bootloader against a GUID partitioned drive with EFI installed, fdisk no longer works to manipulate the active partition. Have 4 partitions, and the first one is set as Active in the Darwin bootloader. However, that is my "safe" mode partition and I actually am using disk0s3 as my real install. Is there any way to set which partition is active for GUID partitioned drives? fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 just shows me a single GPT partition and then 3 unknown partitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kplain Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 I have the same question.... C'mon guru's help us out. Please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch_de Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Same here - would be nice to know how change / set active partition for GUID HDs. Also, i tried out my new (added) HD using GUID Part-Table and cloned my working MBR HD OS X Volume to GUID Volume. Also installed chameleon. Perfect boot from GUID HD, Dock, Menü all works ! (GA-Ep35, E4400 C2D) But all Apps crashed early (really all apps, included Apple Systemapps). ???? Most be something with GUID, because i repaired owener/rights and booting + Dock+Menü worked. After repart as MBR, cloned, chameleon install : Booting OK, and all Apps (as it should OK ?! Has someone also cloned an MBR OS X Volume to GUID (not installed OS X on GUID) -maybe something must be done extra after cloning MBR > GUID with GUID, like UUID setting or so ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhyguy Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 This happens when you have a messed up mbr or something i just use my install cd (iatkos 10.5.4i) to reinstall darwin bootloader to a partion, then reinstall chameleon and then i can see my partitions correctly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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