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hi all, i'm having a bit of a problem here, i installed OSx86 10.4.7 on my HD (pre partitioned) and then installed Debian Etch/Testing/4.0 to the 2nd partition on my hard drive...of course it installed grub, but when i rebooted, all i had in Grub were the Linux entries, nothing for OSx...can i somehow add a few lines to my Grub meny.lst and be able to get back into OSx or did i totally screw myself?

 

my OSx partition is /dev/hda1...if it's possible to load OSx from Grub, i'd REALLY appreciate it if someone could post the couple of lines i have to add to get it to work.

 

Thanking you all in advance for your help

JD

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hi all, i'm having a bit of a problem here, i installed OSx86 10.4.7 on my HD (pre partitioned) and then installed Debian Etch/Testing/4.0 to the 2nd partition on my hard drive...of course it installed grub, but when i rebooted, all i had in Grub were the Linux entries, nothing for OSx...can i somehow add a few lines to my Grub meny.lst and be able to get back into OSx or did i totally screw myself?
No, you didn't screw yourself. I installed from the JaS DVD on top of a machine running XP and Linux. Grub works a treat.

 

my OSx partition is /dev/hda1...if it's possible to load OSx from Grub, i'd REALLY appreciate it if someone could post the couple of lines i have to add to get it to work.

 

Thanking you all in advance for your help

JD

Did ya' check google? I did, used "osx86 grub" and found this example under the first hit:

 

title OSX at (hd0,0)

root (hd0,0)

makeactive

chainloader +1

boot

 

My own setup, I didn't use the last part and it's working fine. Adjust for your setup as needed.

I don't think it's easy to find in Google. I've read so many conflicting instructions.

 

I also didn't use the last line ("boot"). And perhaps there's even no need to makeactive - it might be active as it is in this particular case. Mine is on a second partition with Windows on first, so I needed to make it active.

Edited by dvornik
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