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@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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