reinstalling os x within mol

[Derrik Pates]

David Bélanger wrote:
> I tried via mol.  Boots the installer CD fine.  /dev/hda16 (the previous
> 14GB partition) is exported by mol.  Was able to see it, split and
> format it to HFS+ within the Disk Utility.
> 
> However, when I tried to install OS X at section where the volume is
> selected.  I got a message like:
> "OS X cannot be installed on that volume.  OS X cannot boot from that
> volume because it does not have a valid openfirmware path."
> 
> If I boot OS X natively (i.e. not within mol), it sees the entire disk as
> free...
> 
> Any suggestion?

You need to make the partition you want to install to using fdisk. OS X 
won't be able to partition the disk on its own (least, definitely not 
without adding the '-whole' switch (and I'd be concerned about OS X 
eating my partitions, really). It's not hard to make the partition - 
just use the 'C' command in fdisk, and make the filesystem type 
'Apple_HFS'. Then specify that partition in your molrc.osx on a blkdev: 
line, with the -force option, so that MOL won't discard it (since it 
probably won't show up as a valid HFS/HFS+ filesystem). Then you'll be 
able to install OS X in the partition. (I've done this before, so it 
does work.)

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Derrik Pates
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