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

[Panos Savvas]

hi Chris,

Thanks for the suggestion.

I tried this last night. But maybe I am missing the step "rewrite the
partition table with some clear unused space"

I booted into a live cd of PCLinuxOS and used the KDE disk tool to delete
all partition. Upon rebooting from the Mac OSX install disk there are now no
available partionions/disks avalable. i.e. the mac software is not
recognising the disk at all anymore.

When you say "rewrite the partition table with some clear unused space" do
you mean something other than just deleting the partition?

Cheers.


On 7/26/07, Chris Bell <chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed 25 Jul, Panos Savvas wrote:
> > Hi I downloaded the 1.3 branch, however it has been built for PPC (as i
> > noticed later) which i guess is the reason it won't run on my intel mac.
> > However the 1.4dev universal branch also does the same.
> >
> > I might cut my loses as this has been going on for a while and go with
> > Andrew's suggestion. I would love to find a way to resize the partitions
> > without doing the MS-Shuffle. I might just try to delete the linux
> partition
> > without formating and see if this then gets picked up by the mac disk
> > utility.
> >
> > I haven't had to format/reinstall my ubuntu lap top in 2 years despite
> > making some serious braindead moves ;) I suppose I am starting to take
> for
> > granted that my OS problems should be recoverable/fixable.
> >
>   You may be able to use the Linux disc to just delete the problem
> partitions and rewrite the partition table with some clear unused space,
> then re-boot and go on from there.
>
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