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I have problem triple booting Suse linux 10.0, win XP and OSX. A 6 months ago I succesully installed OSX 10.4.3. But I didn't use it because of stupid refresh rate. I found new calisto ATI drivers for OS X two days ago. I get OS X 10.4.6 with patch. As I sad I had working OS X on my computer before. But I erased it after two days. In that time my primary disk failed and I bought bigger disk. But the disk with OSX is still the same. Today I created new partition for OSX. I created 12 GB partition for OS X after small primary FAT32 partition, after OS X partition there are two more extended partitions. I installed OS X on that partition. Before that I formated that partition with apple disk uttily. When installation was complete, I removed OS X DVD and booted up suse linux. I added new line in GRUB bootloader. I ised chainloader. Then i restarted my computer and selected OS X for boot But then I got HFS+ partition error and computer freezes. If I use OS X DVD (I press F8) i don't have option to select HDD for boot. I tryed installing OS X 10.4.3 (it worked before) but the problem is still the same. I don't have any idea what is wrong. I mounted OS X partition with linux and there are many folders there. Apple disk uttily says that partition has no problems. What is wrong?

 

Picture of my partitions:

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System configuration:

Intel P4 SSE2 procesor

ECS elitegroup L4VXA2 motherboard

512 MB RAM

ATI Radeon 9200 SE graphic card

Primary disk Maxtor diamondback 200 GB

Secondary disk Excelstor J80 (with OS X partition)

 

P.S: It is strange that Darwin bootloader can't replace GRUG. BEcause last time darwin bootloader replaced WIN XP bootloader.

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Your partition configuration looks mangled. You should review your partition information and always install Windows and OS X on the first drive (/dev/hda). You won't have any peoblems install Linux on the 2nd drive (/dev/hdd). What do you have in /dev/hdc?

 

I would move ExcelStor to the first drive (hda) and move the Maxtor to the second drive (hdc). Your cd/dvd-rom shouuld be (hdb).

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Thank you for advice. It work but it doesn't work. I changed partitions with partition magic. Then I restarted computer and GRUB had a problem loading. So I replaced MBR with windows CD. Then I installed OS X. After that I changed OS X partition to active. I booted up OS X. Then I changed windows partition back to active. After that I reinstalled GRUB and added OS X as boot option. After that I can't boot OS X. I tryed setting OS X partition as active but it doesn't help. I get HFS+ partition error. So the problem is in GRUB. How can I repair that problem?

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