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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