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"HFS+ partition error" when trying to boot [solved more or less]


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Installed using the kalyway 10.5.1 disc. Got Ubuntu on the main hard drive where the MBR is located (a SATA drive), using GRUB, and installed OSX on a secondary drive (IDE) as a guid partition. The motherboard is an Asus P5KC.

 

This drive seems to have been set up with two partitions by the installer, a 200MB FAT partition and the main HFS+ partition. The FAT partition is flagged bootable. I assume this is the way it should be since the installer did this?

 

Added the HFS+ partition to GRUB with fairly standard lines:

 

name OSX

root hd(1,1)

makeactive

chainloader +1

 

This is where I just get "HFS+ partition error" when I attempt to boot. Also tried "rootnoverify", but same thing happens. I've tried flagging the HFS+ partition as bootable (using gparted), which makes that error go away, but then the computer just hangs completely, no action at all. The partition looks just fine when I mount it in Ubuntu, no errors.

 

This is probably a common problem, but I'm making this thread since I find the search function on this forum horrible.

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