vostok Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 Hey, I followed the guide at the osx86 wiki for the quad-boot between xp, vista, osx86 and suse. I got up to installing osx86 where I have to go into diskutil and erase the fat32 partition and make it a hfs. Well the problem is, there are no harddrives or partitions to select on the left. All I see is the dvd of JaS osx86. Does anyone know what the problem is? -Koss Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42762-help-with-jas-1048/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
codestain Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 (edited) I installed it on a USB drive which I could see during installation.. I would try to format it before then so it could be seen, with a program like TransMac (Windows program) .. Edited February 18, 2007 by codestain Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42762-help-with-jas-1048/#findComment-305954 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vostok Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 I did format it before into 4 parts. 2 ntfs one fat32 and the other one for suse. In the guide it says it should detect the fat32 partition but it doesn't. Should I boot into gparted and set the fat32 as active? -Koss Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42762-help-with-jas-1048/#findComment-305958 Share on other sites More sharing options...
codestain Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 (edited) I meant format it as HFS+ with TransMac .. I don't think active would change anything.. You would mess up your windows too (Unless it's another disk). If transmac doesn't work I would try to format it using command line through the terminal. I don't know the commands I'm new at this too.. Notice that your partition should be primary and id='af' or it won't work.. Edited February 18, 2007 by codestain Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42762-help-with-jas-1048/#findComment-305986 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vostok Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 (edited) Ok you lost me at id=af. Nevermind Gparted can let me make hfs+ partitions. I got transmac but when I select which disk to format, it only detects my old harddrive which I plugged back right now. But not my new one. (My new one does not use ribbon cables; forgot what that's called.) Any Ideas? Thx for helping me so far, Koss Edited February 18, 2007 by vostok Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42762-help-with-jas-1048/#findComment-306018 Share on other sites More sharing options...
codestain Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 You mean a sata drive? The guide says that the partition must be id=af or it won't boot.. To make the partition you go to Start->Run and type diskpart Then select your disk you want to put it in Ex: ----------------------------------------- DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ---------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 Online 56 GB 0 B DISKPART> select disk 0 Disk 0 is now the selected disk. ------------------------------------------ Then list your partitions: Ex: ------------------------------------------ DISKPART> list partition Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Primary 32 GB 32 KB * Partition 2 Unknown 24 GB 32 GB ------------------------------------------ If you want to delete a partition delete it.. The partition you will put the osx must be primary and id=af Create your new partition Ex: ---------------------------------------------- DISKPART> Select disk 1 DISKPART> Select partition 2 DISKPART> Delete partition DISKPART> create partition primary id=af DISKPART> list partition Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Primary 32 GB 32 KB * Partition 2 Unknown 24 GB 32 GB DISKPART> Exit ----------------------------------------------- If you want a partition with a specific size use this ----------------------------------------------- DISKPART> create partition primary size=6660 id=af ---------------------------------------------- What id=af really means I don't know.. I read it somewhere but I don't remember..! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42762-help-with-jas-1048/#findComment-306059 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vostok Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 Well I reconnected some things in my tower, making my old ide harddrive act as a slave through the main dvd player and when I went into the diskutil on the JaS dvd it detected the old ide harddrive. Why cant itdetect my new sata harddrive? -Koss Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42762-help-with-jas-1048/#findComment-306193 Share on other sites More sharing options...
codestain Posted February 18, 2007 Share Posted February 18, 2007 (edited) I don't know, I have a sata drive too and it can't see it. I installed it in a usb old drive that I had. Shame cause my drive is 250 GB, and now it's on a 18 GB drive I had problems with my sata drive with Ubuntu Linux 6.06 as well. I had to download the 6.10 which sees the drive.. Edited February 18, 2007 by codestain Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42762-help-with-jas-1048/#findComment-306225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vostok Posted February 18, 2007 Author Share Posted February 18, 2007 (edited) I see, I am also planning to install Suse on my SATA drive also to get the bootloader grub. Do you think Ill have the same SATA problems there too? Edit 2: When I get into the diskutil and start to erase the fat32 partition, it erases a little and then wont go anymore. I have tryed this twice already and it keeps freezing. Any ideas? -Koss Edited February 19, 2007 by vostok Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42762-help-with-jas-1048/#findComment-306243 Share on other sites More sharing options...
codestain Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Nope.. Leave it for a while to see if it continues.. Try formatting with linux then Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42762-help-with-jas-1048/#findComment-306323 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vostok Posted February 19, 2007 Author Share Posted February 19, 2007 Is it ok if I ask where I can get the jas 10.4.8 newest patch for amd and the defiant disk utility patch as separte downloads? (Not already with the iso) -Koss Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42762-help-with-jas-1048/#findComment-306329 Share on other sites More sharing options...
codestain Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Can't help you, I never looked for it. I'm on intel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/42762-help-with-jas-1048/#findComment-306651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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