[Gllug] Mactel Linux problem - Save my marriage :)

[John Levin]

Panos Savvas wrote:
> hi all.
>  
> A little guru help needed please!
> 
> ive googled like mad but haven't managed to fix this in 2 weeks and in 
> the process mangled lilo (yesterday). 
>  
> Since I installed linux with bootcamp on my MacBook Pro I am no longer 
> able to recover the partition. bootcamp assistant doesn't work any more 
> neither does macs disk utility etc... any ideas? I can't even access the 
> linux partition or reinstall linux etc... its a mess
>  
> I need to recover as my wife is a designer who uses it for work and is 
> going to kill me as this was her xmas present. She hasn't noticed the 
> disk size is half yet ;)
>  
> Personally I use linux for most things and am not a beginner (but no 
> expert) and am comfortable with a command line solution if necessary. 
> Obviously I can see all the partitions from a linux live cd using 
> gParted, but I do not know how to make the partition available to the 
> mac OS so that it can manage/use it.
>  
> Basically I need to recover this a factory osx install for my wife to 
> use. Using the mac disk doesn't work either as it only sees the 80g 
> partition currently being used my osx.
>  
> I have posted in the mactel forums also but no solution yet.
> 
> does anyone here know how to resolve this?
>  
> Appreciate any help
> 
>  

What filesystem did you use for the linux partition? If it's ext2/3, 
then ext2fsx (ext2 for os x)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx
may help.

HTH

John


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