Re: [Mactel-linux-users] snow leopard update trashed my Linux

[Sven A. <an...@an...>]

Geoffrey Myers schrieb:
> I researched updating my osx to snow leopard.  Seems I've successfully  
> upgraded, but in the process, my Red Hat Linux will no longer boot.   
> The disk utility under osx shows all the partitions, but if I boot  
> with a Liux rescue disk, fdisk shows only a gpt partition, and says to  
> us gparted.  Of course, gparted does not come with any of the rescue  
> solutions (fedora 11, red hat 5.3).
>
> So, the question is, how do I recover my Linux partitions?  I seem to  
> recall that I had to use gparted to create my Linux partitions, but  
> can't find my references to that effort.
>
> Regarding the snow leopard upgrade, the instructions I found said to  
> resize the osx partition using gparted from Linux so that there was  
> 128 mb of free space following it.  When I ran gparted, it would not  
> permit me to resize the osx partition, so I shrunk the partition that  
> followed the osx partition and left the free space in front of the  
> 'shrunk' partition, thus giving my 128 mb space after the osx  
> partition.  This appeared to permit the upgrade to snow leopard to  
> run, but following the completion of the upgrade, I've lost my Linux  
> install.
>
> Any suggestions as to how to recover these would be greatly  
> appreciated.  I backed up everything, but hate to think that I'm  
> looking at a reinstall of Red Hat
Did you try to resync the partition tables via gptsync from rEFIt?

Regards
 Sven Anders

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