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

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

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?


That was it.  Ran gptsync from the efi shell and this post comes from my 
Linux env.  Thanks Sven!

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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