OT: OS X Disk Utility vs Linux

[Stephen]

This is where you build a xenserver at home and use it then you can
keep your linux box

I just moved my 2k3 box to xenserver so I can have both

Now to find a niceish raid solution for my linux side in a dualboot,
but that's a new topic

On 4/22/09, Kurt Granroth <kurt+plug-discuss at granroth.com> wrote:
> Yep.  I probably should have clarified that I was fine in the end.  I
> am nothing if not redundantly thorough -- I had all of the partition
> table offsets along with full backups, if necessary.  I'm not about to
> mess around with things at the Hackintosh level without covering my
> bases ;-)
>
> BTW, I am -- right now -- sending this mail from Mail.app from my
> Hackintosh.  It feels so very odd to have the OS X interface displayed
> in my ugly mis-matched monitors and knowing it's running in this black
> monstrosity of a box.  I'm so used to running OS X in a computer as
> beautiful as the OS.  Heh.
>
> I still haven't decided to do with the Linux side.  Right now, I'm
> running it inside of VMware Fusion so there is no break in continuity
> in file access (lots of shared drives).  I had the original thought of
> transferring all the files to the OS X side but that's far more of a
> hassle than you'd expect... or at least, more than I expected.
>
> Another reason to keep my Linux server running is for sentimental
> reasons.  See, I have had at least one Linux system running in my
> house since 1994 or 1995.  If I moved all of the server functions to
> my Hackintosh and shut down the Linux side, then I would be without
> ANY (non embedded) Linux system in my house for the first time in
> 14-15 years!!  I'm not sure if I can do that.
>
> (I won't be completely without Linux access no matter what -- my work
> laptop and workstation are both Linux as are all of the servers I
> develop for)
>
> On Apr 22, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Carlos Macedo Gomes wrote:
>
>>
>> The trick is that PCs (for the most part) run BIOS, new Macs run
>> EFI.  It's a completely different interface to HW.  I'm not sure if
>> there's any duct tape that can help you get back at your data
>> (sounds like you've rebuild the partition tables already anyhow) but
>> here are a few references to EFI and Macs that might be of interest:
>> http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/EFI
>> http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Home/7CC25766-EF64-4D85-AD37-BCC39FBD2A4F.html
>> http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1569
>>
>> ymmv,
>> C.G>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Kurt Granroth
>> <kurt+plug-discuss at granroth.com
>> > wrote:
>> Say you are experimenting with dual-booting OS X (hackintosh) on your
>> existing Linux machine.  A word of advice: do NOT let Disk Utility
>> touch
>> your existing Linux drive in any way.  At all!  Not even to reformat
>> one
>> innocent little unused partition!
>>
>> If you do, then when you reboot, the BIOS won't recognize your
>> partition
>> map at all and even grub won't work.  Reinstalling grub isn't enough,
>> either... you'll need to use fdisk to rewrite your partition table.
>>
>> Now back to your regularly scheduled programming... ;-)
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