AshToTheLeigh
September 28th, 2010, 01:26 AM
Please bear with me as I'm incredibly new to Linux and shell scripting and all that good stuff. This will be a fairly lengthy post, as I don't really know which information is pertinent to the problem at hand and which is irrelevant.
I installed Ubuntu on my Macbook following the instructions on this page: http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/install_linux_your_mac
At step 7, /dev/sda3 was not in the dropdown menu of options, so I picked...I can't remember. Either /dev/sda or /dev/sda2. I think this may be the beginning of the root of my problems.
Step 8 is where it all falls apart. I get the following error message:
"Status: MBR partition table is invalid, partitions overlap.
Status: GPT partition of type 'Unknown' found, will not touch this disk."
Sooo since I can't sync the partitions, I can't get Linux to load unless I'm loading it from the LiveCD.
I've tried steps 1-10 on this page:
http://mac.linux.be/content/problems-refit-and-grub-after-installation
However, under step 4, I could either "Save" the file randomly, without actually saving it to /mnt/root, or I could just open it and run the installer. I think I went into FF preferences and changed it to let me pick where each download would be saved, but when I actually clicked on the download link and then "Save", after finding the folder and clicking the final button (Which I think actually said "Open" instead of "Save"), nothing happened. I tried running the rest of the steps after just opening the installer on its own, but of course just got error messages. I hate not being able to troubleshoot this on my own!
Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!
I installed Ubuntu on my Macbook following the instructions on this page: http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/install_linux_your_mac
At step 7, /dev/sda3 was not in the dropdown menu of options, so I picked...I can't remember. Either /dev/sda or /dev/sda2. I think this may be the beginning of the root of my problems.
Step 8 is where it all falls apart. I get the following error message:
"Status: MBR partition table is invalid, partitions overlap.
Status: GPT partition of type 'Unknown' found, will not touch this disk."
Sooo since I can't sync the partitions, I can't get Linux to load unless I'm loading it from the LiveCD.
I've tried steps 1-10 on this page:
http://mac.linux.be/content/problems-refit-and-grub-after-installation
However, under step 4, I could either "Save" the file randomly, without actually saving it to /mnt/root, or I could just open it and run the installer. I think I went into FF preferences and changed it to let me pick where each download would be saved, but when I actually clicked on the download link and then "Save", after finding the folder and clicking the final button (Which I think actually said "Open" instead of "Save"), nothing happened. I tried running the rest of the steps after just opening the installer on its own, but of course just got error messages. I hate not being able to troubleshoot this on my own!
Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!