[jfyeh]

I'm almost done with the install however I'm running into a final snag.

I upgraded from 10.5 to 10.5.6 then did the DellEFI and now running the Miniscript. It gives an error saying "mount_hfs: Resource busy(1)" I'm choosing disk0 for the disk to install to. The current disk booted is disk0. Is this correct?

I can boot into OSX manually using the syslinux bootable partition. I'm trying to get it to boot automatically.

[bamf]

What partition format did you use when installing OS X? Did you use GUID?

[meklort]

Don't use miniscript, dellEFI replaces it.

[jfyeh]

I formatted the OSX parition with HFS+ and used GUID on it.

How do I get the DellEFI partition to auto boot the OSX partition? I have run DellEFI Installer 1.07.1 with the easy installation.

[jfyeh]

Here's my setup:

SSD partition break down:

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Contents of DellEFI partition:

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DellEFI loading, first message:

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[jfyeh]

Bootloader loading:

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First options:

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I hit escape and enter 81:

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[bamf]

Why do you have a partition named DellEFI? You should have 1 partition visible in Disk Utility - your OS X partition. I think DellEFI is failing because it is expecting the first partition after the invisible EFI partition (that is automatically created when you format the disk GUID) to be your OS X partition. Instead it appears yours is DellEFI.

I would suggest re-partitioning and re-installing, but you may want to ask bmaltais directly.

[mechdrew]

Originally Posted by bamf

Why do you have a partition named DellEFI? You should have 1 partition visible in Disk Utility - your OS X partition. I think DellEFI is failing because it is expecting the first partition after the invisible EFI partition (that is automatically created when you format the disk GUID) to be your OS X partition. Instead it appears yours is DellEFI.

I would suggest re-partitioning and re-installing, but you may want to ask bmaltais directly.

This is absolutely correct. DellEFI only works if you have the first partition as your install partition. The DellEFI partition is not only useless, it is preventing your install from working correctly. If you don't feel like starting from scratch you can just image your drive and then restore it back to a single partition setup.

Simply repartition the drive as 1 partition. Like bamf said there will be a hidden partition that you will never see but you will be doing nothing with it directly.