-jordn- Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 Hey, i decided 2 go native by following this the From Vmware to Native! guide. i have followed the instructions to the letter. I am using my Acronis Boot Loader to manage my operating systems, but when i try to boot, i get the 'HFS+ Partition Error'. Any ideas? i am using the following hardware: an MSI K8N Neo4-F XFX 6800XT 2 hard disks; an 80gb system disk (which is partitioned in 2, 60gb for XP media centre, and the remaining for osx. the other disk is just for storage. any help would be very much appreicated. jordn Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15067-hfs-partition-error/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greta Van Macintosh Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 Ive had a problem with my SATA hard drive in which OSX wouldn't boot if I had the drive split into two partitions. Try using one full drive (just one partition dedicated) exclusively for OSx86 and see if your results are different. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15067-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-96584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquadeluxe Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 what i found is if you used partitionmagic or any other, when creating the partition make sure it is NOT a logical type partition, it has to be primary. and if it still doesn't work then try different boot loaders. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15067-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-96603 Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrunix Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 Good answer aquadeluxe the rest is all in your head... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15067-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-96652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-jordn- Posted April 15, 2006 Author Share Posted April 15, 2006 what i found is if you used partitionmagic or any other, when creating the partition make sure it is NOT a logical type partition, it has to be primary. and if it still doesn't work then try different boot loaders. aquadeluxe, all of my partitions are primary partitions... jordn Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15067-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-96662 Share on other sites More sharing options...
antrunix Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 it's an old problem I talked about on this forum last year : if you pre-format your mac partition with cfdisk on Ubuntu Linux live-CD then after that kind of issue dissappears. The method I followed which led me to triple boot with Acronis OS Selector. Suse, XP and Mac OSX. (Filetype under linux to be choosen is AF (AppleFile) and not HFS! http://unux.org/images/cfdisk.png Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15067-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-96672 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-jordn- Posted April 15, 2006 Author Share Posted April 15, 2006 it's an old problem I talked about on this forum last year : if you pre-format your mac partition with cfdisk on Ubuntu Linux live-CD then after that kind of issue dissappears. The method I followed which led me to triple boot with Acronis OS Selector. Suse, XP and Mac OSX. (Filetype under linux to be choosen is AF (AppleFile) and not HFS!http://unux.org/images/cfdisk.png antrunix, thankyou for your information. however, i only have a small experience of using linux i have downloaded an ubuntu live linux CD, could you tell me how to access/use the cfdisk command? it would be very much appriciated. jordn EDIT: btw, the link 2 that image is dead. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15067-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-96689 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greta Van Macintosh Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 antrunix, thankyou for your information. however, i only have a small experience of using linux i have downloaded an ubuntu live linux CD, could you tell me how to access/use the cfdisk command? it would be very much appriciated. jordn EDIT: btw, the link 2 that image is dead. I'll be following your progress, jordn. I am unable to boot OSX when my SATA notebook HD (HP dv1659us) is formatted with two different partition types. ( I used the newest Suse Distro to partition). Windows will boot with two different partitions and installs, but Darwin bootloader will not initialize unless the ENTIRE drive is dedicated to OSX....it won't work even if I leave just unpartitioned, unallocated space I'm interested to see if the Ubuntu distro partitioning method will produce a different result for you....I might try it to see if it will rectify my problem. What's interesting, is dual-booting with Darwin was fully supported with a very similar Toshiba A105-4021...same chipset (i945 w/SATA HD)...the only difference was it was a Core Solo and the HP model I am using now is a Core Duo, which seems to work perfectly in OSX without any of the heat sensor issues or issues others with Core Duo laptops have had). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15067-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-96700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greta Van Macintosh Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 Hey, i decided 2 go native by following this the From Vmware to Native! guide. i have followed the instructions to the letter. I am using my Acronis Boot Loader to manage my operating systems, but when i try to boot, i get the 'HFS+ Partition Error'. Any ideas? i am using the following hardware: an MSI K8N Neo4-F XFX 6800XT 2 hard disks; an 80gb system disk (which is partitioned in 2, 60gb for XP media centre, and the remaining for osx. the other disk is just for storage. any help would be very much appreicated. jordn Also, if you are indeed using SATA and not IDE, you might want to try disabling legacy SATA support in the BIOS. I couldn't even get Linux to recognize my SATA drive until I disabled legacy support. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15067-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-96704 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-jordn- Posted April 15, 2006 Author Share Posted April 15, 2006 Also, if you are indeed using SATA and not IDE, you might want to try disabling legacy SATA support in the BIOS. I couldn't even get Linux to recognize my SATA drive until I disabled legacy support. hey Greta Van Macintosh, i happen be using IDE instead of SATA, because its not supported by the OS. i had to disable most SATA options in the BIOS to get the install dvd to work, as it was causing errors in the verbose. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15067-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-96712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greta Van Macintosh Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 hey Greta Van Macintosh, i happen be using IDE instead of SATA, because its not supported by the OS. i had to disable most SATA options in the BIOS to get the install dvd to work, as it was causing errors in the verbose. Ahh, I see. Well, if you can get it going with Ubuntu partitioning, I would be interested to know. It might solve my dual-booting issue. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15067-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-96716 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-jordn- Posted April 16, 2006 Author Share Posted April 16, 2006 hey guys, right. i have it working well in vmware, i did this by using Acronis Disk Director, and settin the partition that i wanted OSX on to Apple Universal File System (Apple UFS). then when i installed through vmware it said that it was a UNIX partition, so installing was pretty much error free. however, i am still unable to boot nativley due to the HFS+ Partition Error, but i have just updated my MBR, so i will reboot and try again. jordn EDIT:- still unable to boot natively any suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/15067-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-96965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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