"NOT DOS"????

ID Offset Size Name Layout Type Detected Type Mounted As Mount Method

2 0.188 GB 43.3GB DH2 MAC - MorphOS SFS DH2 Manual

Drive DH2 Filesystem Autodetect DOS Type xxxxxxx Buffers 100

The Wizard starts the upgrade process and when it tries to upgrade the system files it gets an error

NOT A VALID DOS DISK
INTALLATION FAILED

[ Edited by osco on 2010/7/2 19:17 ]

[ Edited by osco on 2010/7/2 19:17 ]

Probably the HFS boot partition has not been detected properly. Could you post your full partition layout here? IWizard assumes that the boot partition is the first HFS partition it finds on disk.

Probably the HFS boot partition has not been detected properly. Could you post your full partition layout here? IWizard assumes that the boot partition is the first HFS partition it finds on disk.




ID Offset Size Name Layout Type Detected Type Mounted As MountMethod

0 0.000GB 128.0MB MAC - unknown - Disabled

1 0.125GB 64.0MB DH1 MAC - MAC HFS - Disabled

2 0.188GB 43.3GB DH2 MAC - MorphOS SFS DH2: Manual

3 43.458GB 42.3GB DH3 MAC - MorphOS SFS DH3: Manual

4 85.792GB 42.3GB DH4 MAC - MorphOS SFS DH4: Manual

5 128.125GB 128.0MB MAC - unknown - Disabled

6 128.250GB 104.6GB DH0 MAC - MAC HFS+ - Disabled

7 232.886GB 8.0KB MAC - unknown - Disabled


ID 1 & 6 Mount on boot
Filesystem all Autodetect
Dos Type for all xxxxxxxx
Buffers 100

I don't suppose you've tried using SFSDoctor?

Could you run HDConfig and check the type of the first partition (the 128MB one)? If it is Apple_HFS then change it to something else so IWizard would not try to mount it as Boot.

@Osco

I notice that you do not have the 128MB 'padding' space between partitions. This is set up by the Mac partition program by default - I guess the MorphOS partition tool also creates these for compatibility with MacOS for dual-booting systems?
Could this be the cause of the upgrade failure?

On a side note, with reference to your e-mails to the mailing list (morphos@ml.morphos-team.net) on this issue, the mailing list convention is to use bottom posting (ie your reply should be beneath the original post). This makes things much easier for reading discussions. It also means people are more likely to reply to you, since they do not have to re-format your e-mails in order to reply. Just something I'd noticed that may prove helpful.

Best Regards



Rich

[ Edited by boot_wb on 2010/7/3 17:32 ]

[ Edited by boot_wb on 2010/7/4 2:31 ]

These 128MB padding partitions are not needed neither by MorphOS nor by OSX. They are created by default for some MacOS preOSX compatibility.

@March

Thanks, good to know that. Seems odd though as (in the days pre-OSX) 128MB would have been a fair old portion of the hard-drive. It still hurts to see it missing from the useable partioned space now

Quote:

Are you sure? When I set up 2.4 I did a dual boot installation w/o the padding partitions. It worked initially, but then the mini refused to boot OS X. I wiped out OS X then and eventually formated that partition with sfs (set up dual boot later again with an external fw drive, it's way more convenient).
I also think I remember to have read that the padding actually is required.

The first partition is listed as "Apple Free" it's a padded partition

Hope this is the correct convention?
The IWizard makes it to the Upgrade page


Device Name: DH2
Volume Name: System
Capacity 43GB Free Space42gb MorphOS 2.4



UPGRADE

When "upgrade" is clicked a series of windows appear 16 of them
The first two Copy
not a DOS Disk
Retry Cancel

Next 14 Sys:tools Tools Iwiz
not a DOS Disk
Retry Cancel
Then Final window annoucing upgrade failed

I have a dual boot setup with MorphOS being the first to boot. I dont know how that came to be but it was welcomed because I rarely use the Mac side.. When using the Mac Side a a red stop sign appears on the desktop that the there is a problem with the boot disk..I click this meeage off and proceed with the Mac side. How does the wizard know a partition is the boot one and how does it read the system: to upgrade?




[ Edited by osco on 2010/7/4 6:34 ]