Sonnet ATA133 and no bootable HFS partition |
September, 21, 2002 4:04 PM |
xavier261 |
First of all, congratulations to Ryan for his great piece of software I now happily use for more than 1 year. I have problems installing MacOSX on a 8600 with a Sonnet ATA 133 IDE card, with a Seagate ST330621A 30 GB drive. Note that I didn't purposely bought an overpowered ATA133, but the 66 and 100 seems to be out of the market... The 8600 has a G4/400 card (Sonnet too) and it works like a charm under MacOSX 10.1.5 But really slow, because of the old SCSI. Anyway, I can't make XPF boot MacOSX on it, neither in installation mode, nor with CarbonCopyCloning the (functional) SCSI boot drive. Oh, BTW the card is recognised, it has a loaded kext : | [xavier] $ sudo kmodstat | [...] | 24 0 0x110e0000 0x8000 0x7000 | com.firmtek.driver.UltraTek100 (1.1.1) <23 3 4> Actually, the partitions are mounted under /Volumes while booted on SCSI drive. However, when booting from IDE drive : | no bootable HFS partition (13 times) | Can't open deblocker package | can't OPEN pci1/UltraTek100+/FrmTk-0/@0:9 | (6 times) And this is not an 8 firts GB thing : | 9: Apple_HFS Jaguar 15620464 @ 1824 ( 7.4G) | 10: Apple_UFS news 4301296 @ 15622288 ( 2.1G) 15622288/2/1024 = 7628.07 dis below 8GB However the IDE disk boots under MacOS9, and the card is (obviously) sold to work with MacOSX on NewWorld. And, sorry booting on SCSI and storing data on IDE is not an option, since it is really too slow... Any clue, shared experience ? Thanks, |
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RE: Sonnet ATA133 and no bootable HFS partition |
September, 21, 2002 6:47 PM |
xavier261 |
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You wrote : >The "no bootable HFS partition" message means that your target partition >has no HFS wrapper around its HFS Plus filesystem. One common cause for >this is formatting the drive with the Mac OS X Disk Utility, which does not >create HFS wrappers. God that was so simple ! Many thanks ! Xav |
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RE: Sonnet ATA133 and no bootable HFS partition |
September, 21, 2002 6:06 PM |
OSXGuru |
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The "no bootable HFS partition" message means that your target partition has no HFS wrapper around its HFS Plus filesystem. One common cause for this is formatting the drive with the Mac OS X Disk Utility, which does not create HFS wrappers. At the very least, you will need to use the "Erase Disk" command in the Mac OS 9.x Finder to get a new filesystem for this partition. But you may also end up needing to reformat the drive with the Mac OS 9 Drive Setup (Intech's Hard Disk SpeedTools is the other one which works for this). In case you are wondering, the point of the HFS wrapper is to embed an HFS Plus filesystem inside an HFS filesystem. The reason is that the Mac OS ROMs on older machines can only understand HFS filesystems (not HFS Plus). For that reason, in order to boot from an HFS Plus drive, Apple needed to embed the HFS Plus filesystem inside an HFS filesystem. It occurs to me that XPostFacto can detect cases where there is no wrapper, so I really should provide an error message explaining the problem (and prevent the install from going ahead). |
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