hard disk is not recognized [solved]

[urmajest]

Hi.

I'm running Linux(Gentoo). I want to install Mac OSX 10.4.6 with VMWARE.

 

- My sata controller -

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA Controller (rev 03)

 

I have two SATA disk drives. I want to install osx to the second one.

 

- My second hdd partition -

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

 

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sdb1 * 1 2491 20008926 af Unknown

 

I'm running vmware 5.5.1 on linux and followed manuals with

 

- vmware hdd configuration -

use physical disk drive (/dev/sdb)

entire disk

 

I booted with an image (MacOSX_10.4.6.2G.iso which seems to be Myzar version).

 

VMWARE loads it well. However, Disk utility does not detect my hdd(it only detects the install dvd). Furthermore,

 

I found there's neither /dev/hd* nor /dev/sd* using Terminal. There are

 

/dev/disk0

/dev/disk0s0

/dev/disk0s0s1

/dev/disk0s0s3

/dev/disk1

/dev/disk2

/dev/disk3

 

but, fdisk with none of those works.

 

fdisk says either "resource busy" or "is not a character device or a regular file".

 

Can someone please help me with this?

[micr0c0sm]

Same system (gentoo plus now I want OSx86). Same problem. I tried messing with the kext's to make OSx86 think ICH6-M didn't exist and was using PIIX4 (which does work in vmware with -v), but no go. I had 10.4.1 working fine back in the day, but I lost the tiger-x86-flat.img . If you can help me find it on any torrent site, I can see if I can mess with newer versions of OSx to get it working with out chipset. The problem is we arent using true sata...

[urmajest]

I solved it.

 

I created a vmware virtual disk drive instead of using the physical one, installed it. And then, boot with linux cd(I used ubuntu latest installation cd) in vmware with two disks(i.e., virtual disk(mac osx installed inside), physical sata). Fortunately, the ubuntu linux cd successfully detected sata drive so that I can copy the raw data from the virtual disk to the physical one with 'dd' command.

 

It works great now and I got every device working.