Spidergirl Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Hello there. I was running a version of MacOSX86 (Kalyway) on my computer and I decided to partition the drive to make room for Ubunutu. This required disabling the journal on the partition. The install was a success and I am coherently working in Ubuntu. Unfortunately I can no longer get back in to my Mac partition. I have editing the boot/grub/menu.lst and added title osx86 root (hd0,1) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 But that has shown me the error starting Up H00000 HFS+ Partition Error When booting. I want to think I should have to enable the journal again but I am at a stand still at how to do that. This is what my curent drive looks like /dev/sda1 fat32 /dev/sda2 hfs+ (Mac OSX86) /dev/sda3 ext3 /dev/sda4 ext3 /ev/sda5 linux-swap Basically I need to boot the second partition. Can anyone assist me on this? Thank you kindly in advance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153708-made-an-installing-boo-boo-trying-to-duel-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_webi Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 I think you have to edit com.apple.boot.plist ... in it your osx will have an entry for the "old" partition, which was only one part, but you changed into 2 partitions, so there has been a change ... Use HD Utility by booting from a installDVD to check the correct entry ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153708-made-an-installing-boo-boo-trying-to-duel-boot/#findComment-1084524 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spidergirl Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 Thanks! I have a follow up question. Thats not something I can change from within Ubuntu? What would I look for and change? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153708-made-an-installing-boo-boo-trying-to-duel-boot/#findComment-1084540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_webi Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 if ubuntu can read/write mac os ... yes ... look for something like that: /PCI0@0/IDE1@1F,2/PRT3@3/PMP@0/@0:1 this are the information by diskutil when clicking the info button for a selected partition or disk ... and also have a look at media identification, like disk1s1, this should go confirm with the other information about partition ... but these settings are very fragile to changes, I smashed my system twice until it worked ... and I am not sure if this is right, because its a long time ago, I edited these settings ... I only can say, keep your osx86 always on a separate hd ... hm, I just noticed, that /PCI0@0/IDE1@1F,2/PRT3@3/PMP@0/@0:1 is not in my com.apple.boot.plist ... sorry, ist to long ago ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153708-made-an-installing-boo-boo-trying-to-duel-boot/#findComment-1084552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spidergirl Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 Well this machine is a notebook and does not have a separate HD. My Live CD is back at home and I wont be able to do it for now. Perhaps there is another solution. Would enabling the journal (from Ubuntu) not be a step to take? Disabling it was a requirement for installation of Ubuntu as I had to partition the drive. Thank you for you're kind responses. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153708-made-an-installing-boo-boo-trying-to-duel-boot/#findComment-1084558 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_webi Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 I found something: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Boot Device</key> <string>/PCI0@0/IDE1@1F,2/PRT0@0/PMP@0/@0:1</string> <key>Kernel</key> <string>mach_kernel</string> so there is the place to config ;-) ... try to edit your boot.plist with info from diskutil ... thats all I can do for you :-) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153708-made-an-installing-boo-boo-trying-to-duel-boot/#findComment-1084566 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spidergirl Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 Thanks for all your help lord_wbi. Unfortunately that did not work. To tell you the truth I didn't even know what to do with it. I just copied what you posted and restarted. Same errors Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153708-made-an-installing-boo-boo-trying-to-duel-boot/#findComment-1084586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_webi Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 no, this copy was a sample, you have to get YOUR information in YOUR harddrive by YOUR diskutil ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153708-made-an-installing-boo-boo-trying-to-duel-boot/#findComment-1084596 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spidergirl Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 no, this copy was a sample, you have to get YOUR information in YOUR harddrive by YOUR diskutil ... So using my Live CD gather the information and then change the file com.apple.Boot.plist to what the Live CD tells me? Thanks I'll try that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/153708-made-an-installing-boo-boo-trying-to-duel-boot/#findComment-1084604 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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