Kenneth Powers Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Hey Everybody, I am fairly new to this whole osx86 thing and I wanted to give it a try. So I obtained a copy of the Kalyway package of leopard and burned it (at 16x, which I think may or may not be the problem*). I used Gparted to set up all of my partitions, including a 400gB NTFS for Vista, a 149gB Fat32 for OSX86, and a 148gB ext3 with another 1gB swap for ubuntu. The problem I have is that DiskUtility only sees one partition: A 128gB NTFS partition. It says that the partition cannot be erased. If any of you need more information I would be happy to start up the installation again and write down some notes for you. Any help would be appreciated, thanks! (I have uploaded a screenshot of the vista disk manager (which is not what I used to create the partitions, as stated before, I used Gparted.)). * I have tried burning at 4x, there is no difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenneth Powers Posted December 27, 2007 Author Share Posted December 27, 2007 Doesn't anybody know what is going on here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrowDirt Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 A few thoughts. As you mention Linux (Ubuntu) uses EXT3 as a file system. Winbloz uses NTFS which most Linux systems know how to read but will not write to. Leopard (Apple) uses the HFS+ file system. Leopard obviously needs some free space to create such a partition on the hard drive which it will then format accordingly with the Disk Utility. Such a set of partitions implies that you want to multi boot several different systems. To do that you will need to have in place a Boot Loader that is up to the task for the various systems of interest. I would suggest some reading on what is required to do that... it is not all that simple to do. In fact I avoid doing things like that and simply use several hard disks, one for each system of interest. Can you say KISS..... Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheep Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 I'm having the same problem-- with my 500GB Western Digital drive, I made a 300GB partition and put Vista on it, leaving a 100GB partition to put Kalyway 10.5.1 on. I also did the partitioning with GParted. When I boot Kalyway, Disk Utilities only sees one partition-- 128GB. Mobo is Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R. Is it a BIOS setting I need to change? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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