cv65user Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 does leapord have to be in a primary partition or it can be extended logical partition? as i can onlyy make 4 partitions max but i have done this to my 160gb hdd primary , ntfs , 20gb , xp - instaled primary , hsf+ , 10gb, osx - installed logical partition logial drive, ext3, 4gb, knoppix - not yet logial drive, ext3, 4gb, open suse - installed logial drive, swap, 1gb, linx swap - created unallocated black space 1gb - i cannot make use of this primary , ntfs, 100gb , data/document partition - so i have to make another for tinyvista , i am thinking to put either before or after osx partitin and move all partitions down or make xp in primary partition and then put all other partitions in to logical partision and a data primary partition ?? - so will osx install ok in a logical parition ? my current partitions and how i want it to it would not let me post pics so here is link http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=partitionsdu9.jpg see here please Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143856-does-leapord-have-to-be-in-a-primary-partition-or-it-can-be-extended-logical-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
realityiswhere Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 OS X has to be installed to a Primary partition in order to boot. It can be installed to Extended/Logical, but no point cause you can't boot from it(ever). You could create more than 4 primary partition on a GUID partition table (OS X's native table), so not MBR, but you'll have more difficulty installing windows, and it'll wipe out everything on that drive repartitioning. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143856-does-leapord-have-to-be-in-a-primary-partition-or-it-can-be-extended-logical-partition/#findComment-1021386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cv65user Posted December 31, 2008 Author Share Posted December 31, 2008 hmm i am a bit mixed up , so osx can boot from a parimary partition created in a logical partition ? i remeber my disk management shows it as a green ouitline , IIRC it means logical parition right Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143856-does-leapord-have-to-be-in-a-primary-partition-or-it-can-be-extended-logical-partition/#findComment-1021399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
realityiswhere Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 OS X can only boot from primary partitions, period. It can be installed to logical/extended, but not booted from, so there's no point in even trying. Only primary partitions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143856-does-leapord-have-to-be-in-a-primary-partition-or-it-can-be-extended-logical-partition/#findComment-1021405 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cv65user Posted December 31, 2008 Author Share Posted December 31, 2008 right , in that case is this viable solution to partition my drive = ttotal 160gb ******************* primary partition , ntfs , 20gb , xp primary partition , hsf, 10gb , osx extended 30gb partition of which logical primary , ntfs , 5gb , tinyvista of which logical primary , ext3, 4gb, knoppix of which logical primary , ext3, 4gb, open suse v11 of which logical , swap, 1gb, linux swap primary partition , ntfs , 120gb , shared data/doc drive ********************* this way i still made 3 primary partioins + 1 extended partioin which has many primary partitions inside so it will be like this now ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143856-does-leapord-have-to-be-in-a-primary-partition-or-it-can-be-extended-logical-partition/#findComment-1021437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ummm22 Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Umm... actually Mac OSX can boot from a logical partition, just not directly. Right now, I have Mac Leopard 10.5.5 installed onto a logical partition in an extended partition, everything just went normally, including installation. You have to use Windows, at least I do. Windows XP here too. To boot into it, you have to do the following: 1) Download the tboot.zip from http://www.digitmemo.com/articles/658/howt...ot-setup-guide/ 2) Unzip, put the 512 byte tboot file into the root of your bootable partition (whichever partition it boots into first, just right into C:\) 3) Open up boot.ini with notepad, and at the bottom put: C:\tboot="Mac OSX Leopard" 4) Now when you want to boot into your mac partition, boot into xp and you will get a prompt for either continuing with booting XP or booting Mac. Just choose Mac, and then you have to choose Mac again on the correct partition on the next screen. Should work fine, works perfectly for me use the guide in the website from step 1 for additional help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143856-does-leapord-have-to-be-in-a-primary-partition-or-it-can-be-extended-logical-partition/#findComment-1021676 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cv65user Posted January 1, 2009 Author Share Posted January 1, 2009 thx for that ,. i am using the other common chain loader.ref http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Chain0 mines exact same procedure , you just extract the chainfile and edit boot ini to point to that file, so your versrion allows me to boot from logical partitions ? - is that the difference ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143856-does-leapord-have-to-be-in-a-primary-partition-or-it-can-be-extended-logical-partition/#findComment-1022100 Share on other sites More sharing options...
franciz Posted January 1, 2009 Share Posted January 1, 2009 i am also using the chain0 system loader, it works perfectly well with me so there should be no problem... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143856-does-leapord-have-to-be-in-a-primary-partition-or-it-can-be-extended-logical-partition/#findComment-1022299 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cv65user Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 so where is your chain0 file pointing the osx partition franciz? mines pointing to a primary partition so at moment its ok , but what i want to know is will it to point to a osx installed in a logical partition - is this how you have it set up ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/143856-does-leapord-have-to-be-in-a-primary-partition-or-it-can-be-extended-logical-partition/#findComment-1023186 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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