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PostPosted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 7:50 pm    Post subject: partition problem: too many partitions Reply with quote

i had installed gentoo today but i did it wrong, i didnt install OSX first, so i went ahead and did that, splitting the disk in two parts, gentoo partition first and osx partition second.

However after osx has finished installing this is the partition layout i get:

Code:

Command (? for help): p
/dev/hda
        #                    type name                 length   base     ( size )  system
dump: name /dev/hda len 8
/dev/hda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                    63 @ 1        ( 31.5k)  Partition map
/dev/hda2          Apple_Driver43 Macintosh                56 @ 64       ( 28.0k)  Driver 4.3
/dev/hda3          Apple_Driver43 Macintosh                56 @ 120      ( 28.0k)  Driver 4.3
/dev/hda4        Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh                56 @ 176      ( 28.0k)  Unknown
/dev/hda5        Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh                56 @ 232      ( 28.0k)  Unknown
/dev/hda6          Apple_FWDriver Macintosh               512 @ 288      (256.0k)  Unknown
/dev/hda7      Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh               512 @ 800      (256.0k)  Unknown
/dev/hda8           Apple_Patches Patch Partition         512 @ 1312     (256.0k)  Unknown
/dev/hda9               Apple_HFS gentoo             36588272 @ 1824     ( 17.4G)  HFS
/dev/hda10             Apple_Boot MOSX_OF3_Booter       16384 @ 36590096 (  8.0M)  Unknown
/dev/hda11           Apple_Loader SecondaryLoader        1024 @ 36606480 (512.0k)  Unknown
/dev/hda12              Apple_UFS osx                21997608 @ 36607504 ( 10.5G)  Unknown
/dev/hda13             Apple_Free                           8 @ 58605112 (  4.0k)  Free space

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=58605120
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: @ 64 for 23, type=0x1
2: @ 120 for 36, type=0xffff
3: @ 176 for 21, type=0x701
4: @ 232 for 34, type=0xf8ff

Command (? for help):


As said in some guides i've read i delete some partitions down to this :

Code:

Command (? for help): p
/dev/hda
        #                    type name                 length   base     ( size )  system
dump: name /dev/hda len 8
/dev/hda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                    63 @ 1        ( 31.5k)  Partition map
/dev/hda2          Apple_Driver43 Macintosh                56 @ 64       ( 28.0k)  Driver 4.3
/dev/hda3          Apple_Driver43 Macintosh                56 @ 120      ( 28.0k)  Driver 4.3
/dev/hda4        Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh                56 @ 176      ( 28.0k)  Unknown
/dev/hda5        Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh                56 @ 232      ( 28.0k)  Unknown
/dev/hda6              Apple_Free Extra              36607216 @ 288      ( 17.5G)  Free space
/dev/hda7               Apple_UFS osx                21997608 @ 36607504 ( 10.5G)  Unknown
/dev/hda8              Apple_Free                           8 @ 58605112 (  4.0k)  Free space

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=58605120
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: @ 64 for 23, type=0x1
2: @ 120 for 36, type=0xffff
3: @ 176 for 21, type=0x701
4: @ 232 for 34, type=0xf8ff

Command (? for help):


but i cant delete any more than that when i try to delete partition 2-5 i get this message:

Code:

Command (? for help): d
Partition number: 2
Can't delete entry for a driver (yet).
Command (? for help):



..and it's the same with all others, btw. i've tryed deleteing all partitions in gentoo, and then setting OSX up again but the same problem occurs

i use UFS as the OSX fs btw.
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