samling Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 (edited) Well, I did a search for "HFS+" within this forum for anything that might help, found a few suggestions and tried them, but they didn't seem to work. I'm attempting to install OS X86 on a separate slave drive (200gb). I followed the Simple & Accurate guide to a T, doing the following: Completely formatting my slave drive so that it's back to square one for the drive. Ran DiskPart and created a 6660mb-sized AF-type partition, which was verified to be created successfully by PartitionMagic within Windows. DD'd the Deadmoo tiger-x86-flat.img to the partition (this is where I have a question) using bs=32256 and skip=1. After about three minutes (running a dual-core X2 3800+, went fairly quickly), it was completed. Went back into Windows XP to edit my boot.ini file, only to discover the only one that "Search for Files and Folders" could find was a backup presumably made by a program that I have or had in the past. I opened the backup, copied the contents and added the new line to a text file, which I then saved as "boot.ini" (using filetype: all files) in my C:\ directory. To see if it worked, I ran msconfig and checked the boot.ini tab; the chain0 line shows up. I then added chain0 to C:\, and rebooted. When it went straight to Windows XP, I rebooted and pressed F8. When I selected my slave drive, it gave me the "HFS+ Partition Error". Back in Windows, I searched for a fix, and someone recommended my AF partition be Active, so I made it active within PartitionMagic, rebooted and attempted the same thing again, to get exactly the same results. My question about the DDing of the .img file is that when I do "dd --list" to view my paths, it says something like "//?/... link to //?/...". The first part has the Harddisk# and the Partition#, while the second has either Harddiskvolume# or Harddisk# followed by DR1 (for example). I assume I'm supposed to use harddisk# followed by partition#, but if I'm not, could that be the root of the problem? [Edit] Forgot to mention that yes, all of my partitions are Primary; none are extended nor logical. I have 4 partitions: My main drive has one that's almost the full size of the drive with an extremely small one that Windows creates for...well, whatever reason, and the slave drive has the 6,660mb af partition and a 181gb partition that isn't formatted (yet). I'd also like to mention that in the Disk Management utility within Windows, it shows the af-formatted space as being completely free, even after dding. I'm kind of stumped here. I thought I did everything right. If anyone could offer any suggestions, that'd be great. Thank you. Edited January 17, 2006 by samling Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6984-hfs-partition-error/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
trixxie Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 HFS+ Problem has simply solution: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=6890 good luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6984-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-43587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
benhurd22 Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 sounds to me like you're boot.ini isn't properly set up. A boot menu will most definitely pop up before booting into XP, if you're not seeing the menu then your boot.ini is misconfigured or absent. "selecting slave" is completely different. An easy way to see if this is set up is just to go Start -> Run, then run: notepad C:\boot.ini. That should open up the effecttive boot.ini, and see if your changes are actually there. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6984-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-45944 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmarsh Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 Are you sure dd completed correctly? 3 mins sounds fast. Once you are sure of that I would install a bootloader. I like bootmagic. Lots of people like grub. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6984-hfs-partition-error/#findComment-46068 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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