Am 19. Apr, 2009 schwätzte Kurt Granroth so:

> 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!

Thanks for the warning.

> 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.

Use sfdisk to backup your partition tables.

sudo sfdisk -d

Throw that into a log file once in a while.

Oh, and make sure to be getting a copy on another box or that log won't
help you :).

ciao,

der.hans
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