nebo Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 All over the forum people are saying that to boot from a partition you need to set it to AF under linux. .but they don't tell how.. Can someone please explain how to determine the proper partition and set it to AF? I tried Cfdisk but it just shows the whole disk not the partitions.. A windows method would be even nicer.. Thanks Nebo Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/848-could-someone-please-explain-how-to-set-af/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebo Posted August 22, 2005 Author Share Posted August 22, 2005 Come on I know someone has to know how to do this! People have mentioned this a bunch of times on this forum. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/848-could-someone-please-explain-how-to-set-af/#findComment-5424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancake Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 are you doing it through vmware image or the dvd install? with the vm image it should already be there as its a image of a full instal including boot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/848-could-someone-please-explain-how-to-set-af/#findComment-5437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest User Name Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 this was writen is some guide but i cant remember whose it was Boot to the LiveCD Upon boot, run: fdisk /dev/hda "n" for new, "p" for primary, "2" for the second partition, [enter] for first available sector, "+6200M" for a slightly larger than 6GB partition , "t" to change the type, "2" to select the second partition, "af" to change to an apple style partition, "w" to write changes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/848-could-someone-please-explain-how-to-set-af/#findComment-5442 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebo Posted August 23, 2005 Author Share Posted August 23, 2005 are you doing it through vmware image or the dvd install? with the vm image it should already be there as its a image of a full instal including boot <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well I am using DD to copy over DeadMoo's VMware image. The file copies over the third partition on my Sata harddrive.. (I have read that the partition has to be formated with NTFS first, and it is).. I have the Chain0 file on my root directory and the proper entry in my boot.ini when I boot I get the HFS+ error. From my research it says that the partition has to be set to AF using CFDISK, but when I start up CFDISK it only sees the whole drive, it doesn't list the individual partitions. I tried setting the whole drive to AF but then nothing booted.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/848-could-someone-please-explain-how-to-set-af/#findComment-5653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebo Posted August 23, 2005 Author Share Posted August 23, 2005 this was writen is some guide but i cant remember whose it was Boot to the LiveCD Upon boot, run: fdisk /dev/hda "n" for new, "p" for primary, "2" for the second partition, [enter] for first available sector, "+6200M" for a slightly larger than 6GB partition , "t" to change the type, "2" to select the second partition, "af" to change to an apple style partition, "w" to write changes. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> So should I delete my third partition and use CFDISK to recreate it? Does it need to be formated to NTFS before I copy over the DeadMoo image (I have read this a few times)? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/848-could-someone-please-explain-how-to-set-af/#findComment-5655 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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