On Thursday 02 March 2006 11:32, you wrote: > > I partitioned the hard disk from OS X Installer's Disk Utility, basically > > creating a 18GB HFS+ partition at the end of the disk for MacOS X and > > leaving the rest of the disk free. > > > > The installer completely failed to detect the partitions, and only > > offered me to repartition my whole hard disk again. > > this is very strange and should not have happened. Can you now that you > have the installed system, try to run parted on it, and see what it reports > (use only the print command of parted). if parted doesn't show the right > thing, could you file a bug report against parted, and append the first few > sectors of your disk (dd if=/dev/hda of=file_for_parted count=64) ? > > If it shows this correctly in parted, then there is something horribly > wrong with partman. I've got this:
sweetie# parted /dev/hda print Error: The partition's data region doesn't occupy the entire partition. Ignore/Cancel? i Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0kB - 80GB Disk label type: mac Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1kB 32kB 32kB Apple 2 33kB 851kB 819kB hfs bootstrap boot 3 852kB 1075MB 1074MB linux-swap swap 4 1075MB 60GB 59GB ext3 root root 5 60GB 60GB 134MB hfs+ eXternal booter 6 60GB 80GB 20GB hfsx Apple_HFSX_Untitled_1 Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary. as you see it gets an error, but it can continue if I ignore it, may be partman is not "ignoring" that error (which I don't know how severe is), and returns nothing Best regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]