diaolosh Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 First of all , I have to tell you that I've been seaching for answers in the net for the past 2 days wihout any avail. I have an ASUS P5KR motherboard with Q6600 CPU. Windows Xp sp2 preinstalled in a 80g Western Digital HDD. Im using Sata hardrives and because of the jmicron thing, I've installed Kalyways dvd through an external usb dvd drive. MAC OS X installed in a different 250g Hitatchi HDD in a primary bootable and active 166G partition. Problem is that I cannot get to boot into the MAC OS X as i get the Hfs+Partition error. I've tried several solutions floating around the net but nothing did the trick.. -Used the Acronis os selector. -Formated into Fat 32 and then installed -Tried the fdisk -u/dev.... command through the Terminal Utillity -Tried the sudo fdisk -u/dev.... command through the Terminal Utillity and the -s but it says commant not found I try to boot through the OS dvd and it always goes into an installation prosess. What am I doing wrong? :-) I know its been asked over and over in these threads but I cant find a working solution.. Any ideas? Thank you Dion Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83490-noob-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
qbattersby Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Did you select MBR when installing and formating your partition? That may be your problem. Just a thought, I could be wrong however Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83490-noob-problem/#findComment-593140 Share on other sites More sharing options...
diaolosh Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 Yes, I have but unfortunately this is not the case...Thanks anyway! :-) Something that puts me into thoughts is that the sudo fdisk ... commant is not recognised I always get "commant not found" either on Terminal or in single mode... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83490-noob-problem/#findComment-593515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 you have to format the disk in MBR or GPT ( normally with diskutil on KalywayDVD) and run the installerDVD in the SAME partition mode. if you mixed it up MBR on disk and GPT on Install, it wont work. or did you plug your HD on one of the first two SATA ports btw if you have an entire disk for osx, then GPT format will be preferable. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83490-noob-problem/#findComment-593549 Share on other sites More sharing options...
diaolosh Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 The disk Im installing The OS is an internal 250gb Sata. Its divided into 2 equal partitions , both of'em empty. Im installing OS in the First partition . I dont recall being given an option formatting the partition into GPT so i formatted into MAC extended journaled. I've used guid bootloader in my previous installations and as I speak im trying mbr..(Still no luk) 1.You metioned somthing about the SATA ports , is there a conflict history about it? SHould i try and move the HDD into another port? 2.Is it better to reformat my entire HDD into one partition using the same mode? (Although I cannot find the GPT format option mentioned before.) Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83490-noob-problem/#findComment-593585 Share on other sites More sharing options...
diaolosh Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 Got it to work! Seems that last last time i installed it I THOUGHT that i had chosen MBR option in bootloader but it went by itself to install GUID (Strange).. Now i have to serach for a solution for getting my IDE dvd drive to work, ethernet and audio card (EMU 1616M).. Thank you for your replies you've been really helpfull! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83490-noob-problem/#findComment-593771 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbd Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 or did you plug your HD on one of the first two SATA ports I've been having problems too. I haven't heard about the SATA ports - can you explain in more detail? diaolosh: sorry, but your Emu card isn't going to work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/83490-noob-problem/#findComment-594497 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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