[mythtv-users] KnoppMyth Install will not boot

[Ivan Kowalenko]

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On May 14, 2006, at 08.52, cossaboon.mythtv at mac.com wrote:

> Installed W2K on to the drive. Then reinstalled Myth, and it booted?
> something on the MBR was not being updated correctly, but Windows
> fixed what Linux could not.... ah, I can not believe it.

The difference isn't that Linux couldn't fix what Windows could, but  
that Linux worked with what Windows chose to ignore ;)

> On May 13, 2006, at 8:00 PM, cossaboon.mythtv at mac.com wrote:
>
>> I must be doing something wrong.
>>
>> I have tried to install the R5B7 of KnoppMyth. I do the install, and
>> all seems to work, but the hard drive is not booting.
>>
>> I check the partitions and nothing is set to ACTIVE / Bootable (I
>> changed these and this did not help). I tried a manual install, and
>> still no luck.
>>
>> The drive was used on a Mac, and might have a MBR issue, is there a
>> way to insure a full format/partition for Myth?

OS X generally tends not to use the MBR, and neither did Mac OS  
Classic (OS 9 and earlier). OS X/Classic uses an "Apple Partition  
Map" for their PowerPC line of systems, and the OS X Intel machines  
use a GUID Partition Map.

I had a similar problem with an external drive I formatted with my  
iBook. What I discovered, however, is that parted and fdisk were  
creating the proper partitions, but not changing the partition maps.  
Linux doesn't seem to be on too friendly terms with the APM, and I  
can't speak for GUID. I found that by using parted, I could change  
the partition map back to something Linux understood (interestingly  
enough, it didn't like the BSD partition map, but loved the MSDOS  
partition map). Also, reformatting the drive with the Mac, making  
sure to go into the Partition page of the Disk Utility (with the  
proper drive selected, of course), and click on "Options" and  
choosing the MBR option.

Sorry for the late reply.
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