Linux and HFS+ Partitions

[hellspawn]

Hi!

 

I have installed an old IDE drive for OSX since it doesn't work with my SATA drive yet.

Unfortunately I the OSX partition fills the whole drive and more unfortunately I formatted it case-sensitive and with journalng, which doesn't work with some apps.

So I decided to reformat the partition while backing up my files with Linux (which is on the SATA drive).

 

That's what I did:

- I downloaded and compiled Apple's HFS+ Tools under Linux

- I created an image file and used mkfs.hfsplus to format it

- I mounted the image file and my OSX partition and copied all files to the image file (using mc)

- Then I formatted my OSX partition with mkfs.hfsplus, leaving out the journal and case-sensitivity

- Finally I copied the files back from the image to the newly formatted OSX partition

 

When I rebooted and tried to start OSX, I got an error message regarding a wrong binary format (or something like this - sorry I didn't write it down) from the boot loader.

 

Can somebody tell me what I did wrong?

 

PS: Luckily I had made a 1:1 partition image before...

[lord_muad_dib]

uhmmm i dunno what's wrong... maybe you need to repair files permissions? boot with the installation DVD and try to repair 'em and repair the disk..

[hellspawn]

So basically it should work the way I did it?

I was not sure if I had to use hpcopy from hfsutils, but as far as I understand it that's only for copying files from HFS+ to a non-Mac partition.

[hellspawn]

Ok, I have tried it again now and ran into the same problem.

The error is: "Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format".

 

I did a "repair volume" from the install dvd, but nothing changed.

 

Any ideas?