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Installed Ubuntu 8.10 on Macbook, Now cant boot into mac osx

Asked by Faheem Seedat

I was running Mac osx on my macbook (Intel CPU), i repartitioned the harddrive into 2 drive and loaded Ubuntu 8.10 on the other drive, Now i cant boot into Mac, is there a way to fix this as all of my info is on the mac drive, i can access the mac drive through ubuntu, but the main info like my pics, music and so on is lock, says that i don't have correct permisions, but the first time i mounted the mac volume, it asked for a password and i accessed it with my mac username and password..... Please help

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mak (iammak) said : 		#1

do you have a grub problem?

try typing this in terminal:
sudo su
(password)
nautilus /media/partition name (the partition must be already mounted)

this will open the partition folder you entered.
now you have full rights
so you can do wteva u want to

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Faheem Seedat (faheem-phixit) said : 		#2

Thanks will try it out, is there a way to edit grub config to pic up the mac partition, so i can dual boot, if not its fine as long as i can copy all of my files from mac to ubuntu.... Sorry for the hassle, i am a newby to Ubuntu....

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Koen (koen-beek) said : 		#3

following link might help, obviously you don't need to install mac

http://maketecheasier.com/how-to-dual-boot-ubuntu-gutsy-and-mac-osx-leopard-1051/2008/02/28

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mak (iammak) said : 		#4

if you can see the message when you start your pc :
press esc
and the timer counts from 3sec to 0sec and then ubuntu coming up, then just press esc key to enter a menu that will list all your operating systems.
you can select your mac partition there.
you can even change anything you want. for example increasing the time from 3secs to say 50 secs or even making the mac partition to boot automatically like the ubuntu now does.

and could you unlock the mac files from your ubuntu partition as i told you to?
write wht happened.
good luck.

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Gionn (giovanni.toraldo) said : 		#5

Usually if you keep the ALT key pressed when you turn on a mac, it will appear the mac boot manager, where you can select the MacOsX partition to boot.

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