How to Set up Your Partition Active Using Fdisk in MAC OS X

Any Macintosh and Hackintosh based system run only on active partition but is this possible to run OS X on Logical partition ?Yes it is possible to run but must have to convert the logical partition to active.On this article i will show you how to set your any partition to active partition

Set Your Partition Active Using Fdisk

1:-Boot your Mac OS X installation DVD / USB

2:-Once the installer is running, go to the Utilities menu and open Terminal

3:-Determine which is your MAC OS X partition from entire drive for that

Type “diskutil list” and hit enter

Verify which disk number holds your mac partition (disk0, disk1,disk2 etc.)

4:-Assuming the MAC OS X disk (“disk1”), then

type “fdisk -e /dev/rdisk1″ and hit enter

Ignore the error “fdisk: could not open MBR file “

5:-Determine which partition for MAC OS X needs to be set “Active”

Type p

Verify which partition is for Mac OS X (1, 2, 3, etc.)

6:-Set the partition “Active”

Assuming it is partition 1, then

type f 1 <== use your partition number here !!

7:-Save and exit

Type write

Type y (yes you are sure)

Type exit (to quit)

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How to Set up Your Partition Active Using Fdisk in MAC OS X

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