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johan1391

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From: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Registered: 2010-08-03

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[Solved]Help with Partition Tables for Special Case

So I am trying to install Arch Linux on a MacBook so I will be using rEFIt to boot to my arch partition. I have 45 G of free space to work with and 1G of ram. What would be the best way to partition the HD so that it will boot. I keep getting something along the lines of "no operating system" or "operating system does not exist".

Is there anyway to partition the drive so that this does not happen. Also help with where to configure GRUB would be greatly appreciated. Here is my current partition layout (the FAT32 partition is where I will be doing the install):

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          26      204819+  ee  GPT
/dev/sda2              26        4265    34048612   af  HFS / HFS+
/dev/sda3   *        4281        4305      194560    b  W95 FAT32

Last edited by johan1391 (2010-08-04 06:48:30)

jac

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Registered: 2009-05-19

Posts: 431

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Re: [Solved]Help with Partition Tables for Special Case

Why are you using FAT32? I'm not sure if GRUB can boot from that, but if it can you usually install grub to the MBR of sda.
Usually the way the HDD is partitioned doesn't matter to GRUB at all, so maybe you're installing GRUB incorrectly. Where have you been installing it to? What is your menu.lst?

Also, please change the title, or update your post as to how you solved your problem.

Last edited by jac (2010-08-04 10:45:13)