The last DVD....

[TheMadJester]

ok, got busy with school and had to put my extention of the OS x86 project on the shelf temporarily, but im back in bussiness.

 

So, I find out what was the problem with the laptop (sig), disable the LAN and she boots into the installer perfectly. I get to were I select my partition, and thats were the trouble is.

 

Doesnt recognize my FAT 32 partition I made for it;

 

so I ran disk utility, it varifies and all that, so i try to format my partition to Mac OS x Journaled and no dice. (cannot find partition map error)

 

So next I read that I may have to set it to active in terminal.

So I run terminal because I read an article http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=29304 were someone had a similar problem and Ramjet suggested they activate their partition or something. following instructions from rammjets link... ( http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=22844 ) and I can load something with the "fdisk -e/dev/rdisk0s2" command, but at that point Im kinda lost.

 

(I got the disk0s2 from disk utility, thats what it said my partitions ID was)

 

the guide said to hit "p" then activate withh "f (disck #) then exit but p doesnt work, and I know nothing about terminal so im rather concerned about accidentally formating my windows partition >.<.

 

I was able to attempt an entry using /dev/rdisk0 however I got a Access Denied, which i guess means thats was my windows partition and mac wants nothing to do with it.

 

I got other info on my partition in diskutility, this is what I thaught might be usefull:

Partition ID: Disk0s2

Bootable: no

Supports Journaled: no

Journaled: no

 

(side note: im shelving the desktop for now, this is all laptop from here on out)

[Rammjet]

If you boot from the install DVD and go into Terminal, then the command you use is:

 

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0

 

If you are booted into OSX and go to Terminal, the command you use is:

 

sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0

 

BUT, setting the partition active has nothing to do with a partition map error. You might try repairing your MBR by executing the following command in Terminal while booted from the OSX install DVD:

 

fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0

[TheMadJester]

with the fdisk -u /dev/rdisk command, do I need to be concerned about unintentionally modifying my windows partition? because from what I understand:

Disk 0 = my HD

Disk 1 = My CD/DvD drive

 

Like I noticed earlier, Disk utility sees the Fat 32 partition as Disk0s2

which kinda makes a little sence; IE disk 0 section 2 (its the second partition I have on the disk)

[Rammjet]

with the fdisk -u /dev/rdisk

the command is fdisk -u /dev/rdisk0

 

This command does not mess with the partitions. It updates the master partition records that are in a tiny partition at the beginnning of the hard drive. These are the index records for all partitions on the hard drive.

 

Disk 0 is your hard drive. The partition map error was on your hard drive, so you need to repair the partition information on it.

 

Disk0s1 is your Windows partition (Disk0 is your hard drive, s1 is partition 1)

Disk0s2 is your OSX partition.

[TheMadJester]

ok, that makes good sence, and i'll try it, thanks!