Subject: Re: HFS drive won't mount under standalone MacOS
samuel@ibrium.se
Date: Wed Sep 19 2001 - 05:19:45 MDT
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 12:28:16AM -0700, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote:
> When I installed MOL, I created a new HFS partition seperate from the
> one I was using to boot MacOS standalone. I created the partition in
> mac-fdisk, marking the type as Apple_HFS. When I booted into MOL the
> first time from the MacOS 9.1 installation CD, it prompted me to
> formate the partition, which I did, and then installed MacOS 9.1 on
> it (which I then updated to 9.2). I did this because I wanted to
> have seperate System Folders from which to boot MacOS standalone
> versus MacOS under MOL.
>
> Now I've discovered that when I boot MacOS standalone, the MOL
> formatted and installed partition does *not* mount as a drive to the
> desktop. However I can boot MOL from it, and the other old HFS and
> HFS+ partitions do show up as well.
You need to update the disk driver. MacOS won't detect
new HFS partitions otherwise.
/Samuel
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