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 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 >> > > 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... ;-) >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> powerofprimes@gmail.com >> Carlos Macedo Gomes >> _sic itur ad astra_ >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Sent from my mobile device A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss