vaka_85 Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 hi everyone. i'm a newbye and I've tried to install mac os x x86 following some tutorials on the net. i've copied the image on my usb harddrive with dd, but when I boot the computer appears a message: "wrong partition table". What's this??? thanks and sorry for my english Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3613-wrong-partition-table/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 Before you copied the image did it boot? How is the partition table now? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3613-wrong-partition-table/#findComment-22869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaka_85 Posted October 18, 2005 Author Share Posted October 18, 2005 Before you copied the image did it boot? How is the partition table now? before the disc was empty, and so it didn't boot! i don't know hos is now, because i understand very little of these things...can you tell me how can I know how is now?thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3613-wrong-partition-table/#findComment-22919 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 If you have Windows XP you can see the disk in Disk Management, or with Diskpart, with Windows 9x you can use FDISK, and there are several utilities like Partition Magic. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3613-wrong-partition-table/#findComment-22931 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaka_85 Posted October 20, 2005 Author Share Posted October 20, 2005 If you have Windows XP you can see the disk in Disk Management, or with Diskpart, with Windows 9x you can use FDISK, and there are several utilities like Partition Magic. I try to use partition magic... it says: type: fat32, logic partition... (I've noticed that your sign is ciao, alejandra... if you are Italian I can speak italian, so we can understand each other much better... ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3613-wrong-partition-table/#findComment-23318 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 I try to use partition magic... it says: type: fat32, logic partition... (I've noticed that your sign is ciao, alejandra... if you are Italian I can speak italian, so we can understand each other much better... ) Well I'm not italian, I'm mexican, but I like much Ciao than Bye or Adios. You need to change the type of your partition to AF, partition Magic can't do it, but with a Linux Live CD or with Diskpart on Windows XP. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3613-wrong-partition-table/#findComment-23338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaka_85 Posted October 21, 2005 Author Share Posted October 21, 2005 Well I'm not italian, I'm mexican, but I like much Ciao than Bye or Adios. You need to change the type of your partition to AF, partition Magic can't do it, but with a Linux Live CD or with Diskpart on Windows XP. ok, i try and then I'll return here... thanks, ciao! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3613-wrong-partition-table/#findComment-23470 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentertainment Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, c5unk etyopeing hehe. let me try taht again drunk typing...hehe Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3613-wrong-partition-table/#findComment-23472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaka_85 Posted October 21, 2005 Author Share Posted October 21, 2005 noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, c5unk etyopeing hehe.let me try taht again drunk typing...hehe Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3613-wrong-partition-table/#findComment-23488 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentertainment Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 woops, that wont happen again... For some reson, I had left Firefox open with this site loaded, got back and well...yeah, typed away. lol, anyways... make sure you don't change the windows partition...that would be very bad, just want to state that. Also, if you did the install that deadmoo made (which it sounds like you did) I think the dd command does it. AND, it would be nice to know which bootloader you are using and what the boot file says. Another problem some have found is there are a few instructions that don't work as they give the wrong DD command. It could be many things, but in order to know (instead of having you try all sorts of stuff) we need to know more about your settings. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3613-wrong-partition-table/#findComment-23551 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaka_85 Posted October 22, 2005 Author Share Posted October 22, 2005 woops, that wont happen again...For some reson, I had left Firefox open with this site loaded, got back and well...yeah, typed away. lol, anyways... make sure you don't change the windows partition...that would be very bad, just want to state that. Also, if you did the install that deadmoo made (which it sounds like you did) I think the dd command does it. AND, it would be nice to know which bootloader you are using and what the boot file says. Another problem some have found is there are a few instructions that don't work as they give the wrong DD command. It could be many things, but in order to know (instead of having you try all sorts of stuff) we need to know more about your settings. ok, I try to explain what i've done...i follow the guide on this site... first of all i've used diskpart to create the partition. then I've copied the "tiger-x86-flat.img" on that harddisk with dd...and then I've booted it. i've retried and this time appears:"hfs+ partition error"... but I haven't used any bootloader yet. in some guides doesn't talk ab out bootloader... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3613-wrong-partition-table/#findComment-23630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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