No bootable disk found

[Bill Fink]

Hi Neale,

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Neale Pickett wrote:

> Hi.  I'm using MOL 0.9.70 from Ubuntu.  Mattias was nice enough to send me his 
> patched 96M bootx loader, which worked (thanks Mattias!) but the MacOS X 
> installer told me it couldn't install on the "disk" I gave it (a 15G 
> partition at the end of the physical drive) because the partition it made 
> wasn't in the first 8GB.
> 
> Well, whatever.  I rebooted and installed MacOS X natively (ie: outside of 
> MOL).
> 
> Now I'm getting this:
> 
>     CD   /dev/cdrom       CD-ROM         <read-only>   ------
> ----> /dev/hda2 might be a boot-strap partition.
> ------> /dev/hda3 is linux-mounted with write privileges.
> Could not open '/dev/hda3' with read-write permissions
>     Unembedded HFS+ /dev/hda5                       <rw>  128 MB BOOT
> 
> 
> >> ==================================================
> >> MacOS X Boot Loader 0.9.70
> >> SyncRead: error
> >> SyncRead: error
> >> --> Boot loader failure: No bootable disk found
> 
> 
> My molrc just has:
>     blkdev:             /dev/hda        -rw -boot

I guess you should change that to /dev/hda6 above.  Since you're
specifying the whole disk with /dev/hda, you're getting a read-write
conflict on your /dev/hda3 ext3 Linux partition.

						-Bill



> Parted reports the disk is partitioned like so:
> 
> Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                  Flags
> 1       1kB     32kB    32kB                 Apple
> 2       33kB    1033kB  1000kB  hfs          untitled              boot
> 3       1033kB  60GB    60GB    ext3         untitled
> 4       60GB    63GB    3000MB  linux-swap   swap                  swap
> 5       63GB    63GB    134MB   hfs+         eXternal booter
> 6       63GB    80GB    17GB    hfsx         untitled
> 
> 
> Any ideas as to what I'm missing?  I'm excited to get this working since the 
> installer was so responsive under MOL :)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Neale