Not a bootable partition? |
October, 09, 2003 3:07 PM |
brg15 |
I just purchased this 18.3 Gb Quantum Atlas harddrive from OWC: http:// eshop.macsales.com/Catalog_Item.cfm?ID=4721&Item=OWCMAX183AVN But when I try to install OS X onto it in my 8600 I get the error "no HFS bootable partition found" after xpostfacto reboots. The scsi termination is correct. I even tried reformatting the disk with FWB Hard Disk Toolkit and got the same thing. Is it because the drive has been converted from SCA 50pin SCSI? What can I do? |
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RE: Not a bootable partition? |
October, 10, 2003 1:33 PM |
brg15 |
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Sorry - I made a mistake; it was not FWB Hard Disk Toolkit that i used successfully in the past. It was in fact Intech's Hard Disk Speed Tools. When I used that instead it worked. The drive is now booting 10.2.8. OS9's drive setup would not work, and I did not try Disk Warrior. Thanks everyone. |
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RE: Not a bootable partition? |
October, 10, 2003 9:04 AM |
gregoryy |
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I thought Disk Warrior would fix that problem. The wrapper, is a mini-OS to allow booting on B&W and earlier systems using hfs extended. In fact, I run DW right after initializing. I would use DS 2.07, does a better job, if possible. |
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RE: Not a bootable partition? |
October, 09, 2003 5:39 PM |
OSXGuru |
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The "No HFS Bootable Partition Found" error relates to the manner in which the disk was formatted. Basically, it means that the disk was formatted as HFS Plus without an HFS wrapper. Unfortunately, the only solution (I believe) is to reformat in Mac OS 9 with either Apple's Drive Setup or Intech's Hard Disk SpeedTools. |
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RE: Not a bootable partition? |
October, 09, 2003 4:15 PM |
jseibyl |
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I have an 80 to 68 pin drive, nothing but trouble until I hit the sweet spot on the ID numbers. For some reason, my IBM UltraStar has to have ID 3, not 2, not 4, 3. There is only one other drive on that bus which is the terminated one at ID 1. I was never able to figure that one out, Disable unit attention, proper id, etc. You might want to yank a drive or two just to see what happens. Something in your pram settings might be getting the ID numbers messed up, but that is just a guess. When I get into serious trouble, I take it down to just the bare essentials to get an OS in, then add each device one at a time. I am intrigued that you said you had an FWB disk work in X, what version, can you go into a few details??.......after you fix your trouble that is...... ;-) |
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RE: Not a bootable partition? |
October, 09, 2003 4:12 PM |
gregoryy |
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For $79 you could have a true 68-pin and not deal with SCA adapters. My guess is termination, and format it with 10.2 (better yet, 10.2.3+ which offers Erase with Zero-all if needed). Better luck using an adapter on 68-pin drive, and maybe you could use an UltraSCSI narrow or ATTO PSC (OWC did sell them a year or two ago) or another controller? http://www.hypermicro.com/store/scsihdd.htm |
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RE: Not a bootable partition? |
October, 09, 2003 4:00 PM |
brg15 |
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My machine is an 8600. I have 2 other 4Gb disks in it, one with OS9.1 the other with 10.2.6. They are all on the internal scsi bus. Obviously I can boot from my already installed os x partition. The new drive is converted from 80 pin SCA to 50 pin SCSI. I had this problem before on my other 8600 with a 19Gb Seagate. I reformatted the Seagate with FWB Hard Disk Toolkit and it worked - perhaps that was because I was using an earlier version of OS 10's disk utility that didn't have the disk drivers. Anyway, no matter how I format the Quantum disk I get the same error upon the installation boot. However, I am able read and write to the disk when I boot from either my OS9 or OS10 partitions. |
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RE: Not a bootable partition? |
October, 09, 2003 3:53 PM |
foster |
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The drive is an internal UltraSCSI 50 pin low profile (80 to 50 adapted). I have the same drive, same OWC product number. |
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RE: Not a bootable partition? |
October, 09, 2003 3:38 PM |
jseibyl |
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brg15 Is that drive on a PCI scsi card or your main bus??? What is your machine?? Some scsi cards WILL NOT BOOT X...unless you use the helper disk to start the low level boot x and extensions from a drive on the main bus. I have a 2940 card, and am booting a drive using another drive as a helper. FWB disks will not be seen by OSX, stick with Apple native and format it in os9. You can also use TechToolsPro, it will work, but I like native myself.... You say it is "converted from SCA 50pin SCSI" adapters are not a problem, unless they are bad..what is it converted to?? if it was a 50 pin drive, and you have a 68 pin connector, then it mucst be on a pci scsi card, that's the trouble right there.... |
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RE: Not a bootable partition? |
October, 09, 2003 3:28 PM |
foster |
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I just installed the very same harddrive, also purchased from OWC, in my second bay on my 7500. I left the id setting at 0, but changed the original 1/2 gig in the upper bay setting to 1. I used apple disk setup to initialize/format my 18.3 gig, extended format. I've used XPF to install OX 10.2 and did not get the error you described. I've encountered other problems, which are causing the installation to stall about 1/2 way thru. See my very recent post for further description. My suggestion: use apple disk setup to reformat your drive. |