renegadeandy Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 Right so I have done a hackintosh install before - no issue , it was on a new hdd. Currently my setup is this: 250gb 128gb -> XP 70gb -> Fedora Core 7 (Using GRUB) Rest for Hackintosh. So I am using Acronis Disk Director suite. I create a 60gb FAT32 Primary partition. I boot my install dvd for hackintosh (WHICH I KNOW WORKS FINE!) however in the Disc Manager within the install gui... all it ever finds is the 128gb C: windows partition - and not the 60gb or the linux partitions. How on earth do I get the installer to see my FAT32 Partition! Cheers Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackuser Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 You made a fat32 partition for macosx? If so, did you made this as a primary or logical partition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renegadeandy Posted October 9, 2007 Author Share Posted October 9, 2007 I made it a Primary one - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renegadeandy Posted October 9, 2007 Author Share Posted October 9, 2007 Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renegadeandy Posted October 9, 2007 Author Share Posted October 9, 2007 .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactobacillus P Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 .... The OSX installer only will install on a HFS partition. The fat partition you have created will still need to be converted to hfs. From the installer go to disk utility. Use the disk utility to see if that recognizes the fat partition you made. Erase it to HFS and return to the installer - that'll get things working. Disk utility should be able to see the fat partition, if it doesn't perhaps the Fedora Linux bit is actually throwing the apple disk utility off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renegadeandy Posted October 9, 2007 Author Share Posted October 9, 2007 Right.... It appears to be detecting the first 128gb of the windows partition,...and seems to think the linux partition is 6 gb. Thats all it sees - what do you therefore suggest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurto2021 Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 Wasn't there some hard drives that had a jumper on them that limited the large capacity drives to 136gb or something like that. I know there was an issue with Windows XP not seeing drives larger than 130 or so until Service pack 2. Makes you realize how old Windows XP is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renegadeandy Posted October 9, 2007 Author Share Posted October 9, 2007 windows sees 250gb tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoarthing Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 Right so I have done a hackintosh install before - no issue , it was on a new hdd. Currently my setup is this: 250gb 128gb -> XP 70gb -> Fedora Core 7 (Using GRUB) Rest for Hackintosh. So I am using Acronis Disk Director suite. I create a 60gb FAT32 Primary partition. I boot my install dvd for hackintosh (WHICH I KNOW WORKS FINE!) however in the Disc Manager within the install gui... all it ever finds is the 128gb C: windows partition - and not the 60gb or the linux partitions. How on earth do I get the installer to see my FAT32 Partition! Cheers Andy Hi, when installing Fedora 7 did you take some default install/partition routine using the LVM? OSX will neither recognise the extended/logical volumes made by this nor install above any form of extended/logical volume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactobacillus P Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 I agree with the previous poster, it probably is the linux partitions in front. Suggestion: Move all Linux partitions to the end of the drive. Acronis disk director is able to do that, even bytesector copies when the file system is not recognized. That will give you room behind your windows partition and in front of your Linux ones. Create a fat partition there, primary and install. This should work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renegadeandy Posted October 10, 2007 Author Share Posted October 10, 2007 How on earth do i move them to end of the drive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoarthing Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 How on earth do i move them to end of the drive! . . . . . . Acronis disk director is able to do that, even bytesector copies when the file system is not recognized Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactobacillus P Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 . . . indeed, thanks for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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