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09-17-2006 #1
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WinXP, SuSe 10.1 and MAC O SX
I'm installing a triple boot system, and I have WinXP and SUSE 10.1 so far. I have uded dd to write an image of MAC OS X onto another partition which was correctly given the (AF) filesystem.
My problem is, GRUB isn't booting it. My fdisk + GRUB config is as follows:
sda1 Boot Primary NTFS 6341.70 (MB)
sda5 Boot Logical Unknown (AF) 8398.02 (MB)
sda6 Logical Linux ext3 [LINUX] 5346.44 (MB)
sda7 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 1077.52 (MB)
sda8 Logical W95 FAT32 18844.12 (MB)
And my grub.conf looks like this:
root (hd0,5)
install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,5) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,5)/boot/grub/menu.lst
install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,5)/boot/grub/menu.lst
quit
Now the more I look at that, the more I think that I might have my GRUB config (menu.lst) wrong - for the MAC partition it looks like this:
#Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Sep 16 01:50:55 UTC 2006
colour white/blue black/light--gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE Linux 10.1
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 vga=0x314 resume=/dev/sda7 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title Windows
chainloader (hd0,0)+1
title MACOSX
rootnoverify (hd0,5)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- SUSE Linux 10.1
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off noresume nosmp noapic maxpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd
So in the SUSE part it says root (hd0,5) so I guess that cant be right for the MAC partition...how do I work out what /dev/sda5 is in (hd0,?)????
If sda1 is Windows, sda5 is the AF Mac partition, sda6 is the LINUX partition (SUSE) sda7 is SWAP, and sda8 is a FAT32 data drive to share between OS's...Then what should the Mac OSX partiton be when listed in menu.lst?
rootnoverify (hd0,????????????
I just need to get GRUB to load OSX...
Many thanks in advance for ANY help here :o)
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09-17-2006 #2rootnoverify (hd0,????????????
.... casper ....It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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09-17-2006 #3
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OK, as I was waiting for a reply, I tried (hd0,1 then 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
None work, but on (hd0,4) the error is:
rootverify (hd0,4)
savedefault
Error 15: File not found
Press any key to continue...
Any ideas why its not finding it?! :o(
Do I need to edit my grub.conf at all? (currently looks like:
root (hd0,5)
install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,5) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,5)/boot/grub/menu.lst
install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,5)/boot/grub/menu.lst)
Maybe it should have this line added?:
install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,4) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,5)/boot/grub/menu.lst
(tried that now - no worky) :o(
quit
Thnx
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09-17-2006 #4
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I just installed the Acronis boot loader and it says tere's a problem with the HFS+ partition, so I'm doing it all over again....