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

[Geoffrey M. <li...@se...>]

On Sep 7, 2009, at 3:44 AM, Sven Anders wrote:

> 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?

Not exactly sure how to do that, but I'll google a bit, thanks for the  
hint.

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> Sven Anders
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until later, Geof