I was all set to upgrade to Leopard, but the installer told me that my hard drive with a GUID partition table did not have a GUID partition table - I got a warning triangle overlaid on the disks (I have two partitions, both HFS+) and my only option, if I wanted it installed, was to reformat. Apparently, this has happened to a bunch of people. I have seen two inklings: editing the partition table may work, and running DiskWarrior may work. I haven’t found any reasonable way to edit the partition table without bringing in other operating systems entirely and my DiskWarrior copy is of a pre-Intel vintage.
I did back up important data on the OS partition (read: my stuff), but I don’t have stray space left in any one location to completely back up the entire hard drive, and without that there’s no way I’m formatting. I already do have a FireWire disk to boot up into for when I want to run Leopard, but I guess no Leopard on my internal HD for now.
Sounds like my first date with Leopard: “Hey, Leopard, resize this partition for me, OK?” “Um, OK, I’ll need to fsck first… that’s fine, now I’ll do the resizing for you… naw, on second thought I don’t think I will, there’s not enough free disk space”. “What? I’ve got 20GB… OK, fine, here’s another 40GB” “crunch, crunch, crunch (2 hours later), nawww, still not enough free disk space”. Queue 36-hour backup, reformat/partition, restore, install. Yay, crashy OS installed!
By Bill · 2007.11.08 22:16