Issues with JAS OSx86 10.5.4

[JB09]

Hello,

I came across this site and since I have an HP NC8000, decided I would give the JAS OSx86 10.5.4 OSx install disc a try. I installed this to my HP that already had Ubuntu 8.10 installed so it seems this configuration was a little bit different from others who have posted in this section. In any case, after booting with the JAS 10.5.4 install disc, I went through the installation and selected the appropriate install options for this PC:

 

Kernel Packages:

StageXNU

Audio Drivers:

AC97Audio

Device Identification

Atheros Wireless Adapter

Intel ICH and PIIX Controller

 

However, after rebooting from the OSx install, I cannot get OSx to load and no GRUB boot menu option was created by the JAS install disc. Here is the output of my fdisk (listing partitions and filetypes): (sudo fdisk -l)

 

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00000000

 

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sda1 1 2231 17920476 83 Linux

/dev/sda2 * 2232 9729 60227685 5 Extended

/dev/sda5 * 2232 4162 15510694+ af Unknown

/dev/sda6 4163 4445 2273166 82 Linux swap / Solaris

/dev/sda7 4446 9729 42443698+ 83 Linux

 

/dev/sda5 is the partition that OSx was installed to and it is under the /dev/sda2 Extended partition. Will installing OSx to this partition be a problem? Also, I tried to create another partition (using Gparted Live CD) under /dev/sda1 but no matter what filetype I created this partition in, the JAS OSx86 install disc would not install to this partition).

 

So now my NC8000 boots Ubuntu without issue but my mac OSx partition is not accessible and will not boot during startup. Any ideas for how to fix this? I have searched around A LOT for users that have installed OS X in this manner but none have had this problem apparently (most likely because they installed OS X on a clean system without WinXP/Vista/Ubuntu.

 

 

Also, I did some research and created the following entry in my /boot/grub/menu.lst to create a Mac OS X boot entry in GRUB:

 

title MacOSX

root (hd0,1)

chainloader --force +1

 

When I try to select this entry from the GRUB menu, I get a "Loading stage 1...@#$@%" and then the system hangs. When I change the root (hd0,1) to root(hd0,2), I get a lot of hard drive activity and then a "Loading stage 2..." and the system hangs.

 

Please help!

 

J