When bad things happen to good Mac's [OT]

[Mark Guertin]

I think it's in the menus somewhere in the disk setup application,  
called something like "update disk driver" (which doesn't do anything  
to the visible partitions at all, should just update the driver and  
patch partitions as needed).  In this case if it needs to add a patch  
partition I think it uses it's own "magic" to rearrange things  
slightly and add the partition from available space.

Mark

On 21-Jul-05, at 1:23 PM, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:20:39 -0400, Mark Guertin wrote:
>
>
>> Are you sure you recreated the partitions exactly as you had them?  I
>> suspect there is a patch partition missing if you still cannot boot,
>> and that drive setup.  Is there any unpartitioned space on the
>> drive?  Drive setup can most certainly use unpartitioned space to
>> create new partitions, have done it many many times.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>
> Oops! This was intended to be in that last message as well: Just  
> how does
> one use Drive Setup to utilize unpartitioned space? All it has is an
> Initialize button that lets you specify custom partitions, but it  
> always
> writes new partitions in the place of all the old ones. Is there some
> kind of hidden feature (cmd-shift-opt-something) that lets it create
> partitions without touching what's already there?