Active Partition question.

[zeeduckieez]

If I set my OSX partition active, will I still be able to use Acronis to select which partition I want to boot off of?

 

Will that fix my HFS+ partition error problem?

[cbmkgd]

You mean acronis os selector, i guess.

 

If so, I'd first recommend you make create the acronis bootable cd from acronis disk director, you might need it eventually.

 

When in the acronis boot menu, select your osx icon and click on the Properties button (or right-click and chose Properties in context menu). In the Partitions section you'll see all your disk's partitions, and it's there you can make sure your os partition (osx in this case) is set active when you want to boot the os. You can also chose which partitions you want to hide from the os.

 

A test you can make if things don't clear up is to deactivate os selector from the boot menu. It will then ask you which os to boot when you reboot, and you chose osx. Make sure osx's partition is set active. On reboot, aoss isn't taking charge of things anymore and you boot on the active partition as if you didn't install the acronis os selector.

To re-enable the boot manager, or to uninstall it if you prefer the darwin bootloader, use the bootable cd you created above.

[KewL]

To fix the problem download a partition table editor and change

 

type to AF. Itl fix it

[Rammjet]

Will that fix my HFS+ partition error problem?

 

One thing to try is to rebuild the boot records.

 

Boot the install DVD and go to the Utilities menu and select Terminal.

 

type: diskutil list

 

verify which disk (0 or 1 or 2, etc) is the disk on which OSX resides.

 

then type: sudo fdisk -u /dev/rdiskx (where x is the number of your disk)