NUCLEaR Posted October 30, 2007 Share Posted October 30, 2007 I'm using Tubgirl's release. Thread - http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=68562 I get up to the Disk Utility step, and I have to partition my entire HDD, all my partitions are greyed out. Trying to partition the HDD gives a timeout error after 30 minutes. And I cannot create a HFS compatible partition using diskpart because of an error: There is insufficient free space to create a partition at the specified size and offset. Specify different size and offset values or don't specify either to create the maximum sized partition. ~NUCLEaR Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68635-tubgirl-partitioning-error/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
phnix Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Same deal here, altought I've not tried anything with diskpart. I did the partitioning under linux with GParted, including a primary FAT32 partition. I think the overall problem here is that, at least when booted from the DVD, it recognizes but cant effectively read or write to the nFORCE 4 SATA drives (I've got the same machine, E521, same tubgirl release (AMD SSE3 TEST1)). I'm not sure whether there are working drivers in the actual install (as opposed to when booted from the DVD), or even if there are working nFORCE4 drivers out there (seems like there are as of late, thought I can't locate a download for them). My observations along the cant read/write lines is that it recognizes the partition map, but it can't mount the fat32 partition in the install disc, and reformatting just beachballs. I was going to try installing onto an IDE drive off of a PCI host adapter, but the promise and highpoint ATA controllers I've got don't appear to be supported by OS X. Anyone else have suggestions or a recommendation on a working IDE controller? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68635-tubgirl-partitioning-error/#findComment-488892 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phnix Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 I'm planning to give the following mkext replacement patch a try: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...id=384348 I can confirm from at least a quick check that the driver in the patch is listed as 1.0.3 whereas the one on tubgirl is listed as 1.0.2. I won't have time until later to see if this approach worked. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68635-tubgirl-partitioning-error/#findComment-489021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CupofDice Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Hey phnix. I am on linux and I think I have a similar problem (check my thread). Can those mkext replacements work for me. I don't see any files named that on the cd. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68635-tubgirl-partitioning-error/#findComment-489043 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phnix Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Hey phnix. I am on linux and I think I have a similar problem (check my thread). Can those mkext replacements work for me. I don't see any files named that on the cd. They may, it looks like you've got an nforce based chipset as well. I that the iso is both iso9660 & hfs+, what you are seeing are the iso9660 files, the files that need to be edited are on the hfs+ side. I'm unsure of if there's an easy way to do that under linux. It sounds like it is possible under windows, but it's far easier to replace the files on a Mac, which is what I've done. If this works I'll post here, and may put a patch up for the tubgirl 10.4.10 iso. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68635-tubgirl-partitioning-error/#findComment-489096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phnix Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 Quick rundown: After PM-ing a few people, I've found out that the nForce4 is supported, but the 430 only works in a somewhat cruddy compatibility mode and that this can lead to corruption, even in the current implementation. As such, i've given up on working with the onboard nForce 430 and gave a shot at using a SiI 3112 board that I had laying around. I've installed the non-RAID bios on there, adjusted the VIAATA driver to load when detecting this card, and I can get the install go go onto that drive quite successfully, but there's one problem: On boot I cannot get grub to read from a drive on the controller. It hangs if I try to set the root (even with rootnoverify) to a drive on this controller. This is with a grub partition on a nforce 430 sata based drive. If I instead of booting from the 430 drive boot from the SiI 3112 drive, I just get a blinking cursor... I've tried the most recent BIOS for the SiI 3112 & an older 4.2.70 (which some people indicated resolved some compatibility issues for booting xp on NewEgg). This card works fine if I've already booted into the OS X install CD, or if I've booted into windows and loaded the appropriate driver. *sigh* Not sure if this machine is "impossible" but it's certainly aiming to get that title. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68635-tubgirl-partitioning-error/#findComment-491898 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUCLEaR Posted November 4, 2007 Author Share Posted November 4, 2007 sad to know. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68635-tubgirl-partitioning-error/#findComment-493836 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tribute Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 I'm wondering why there is so little headway being made for E521's - apparently the E520's problems have been resovled, why not the E521's? Native or otherwise. NUCLEaR: Have you done anymore testing on your E521? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/68635-tubgirl-partitioning-error/#findComment-518015 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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