> > I am no expert but I'm sure I've read here and elsewhere that the MacOS > > Apple boot block needs to be the first partition on the disk. > > Certainly when I installed Debian on my G4 I installed MacOSX first. > > Yes I had set it up ahead of time with the necessary partitions at the > front of the drive, preparing to attempt an OS X install from w/in mol. > I left empty space at the back of the drive OS X's HFS+ file system. > > The OS X disk utility in the installer killed the existing Linux > partitions that were in use (it was kind of "exciting" [because I did > not care about having to do a Linux reinstall] to wait and see what > would happen next, when I realized what had happened). One window > disappeared at a time, until I was left with a blank screen. why did you use the mac os x disk utility though? i mean, basically you should be able to just choose a partition from within the normal os x installer.. no?
also: did you run mol as root? i wonder how it can kill your linux partition, when you dont..
