Cannot create BFS partition on GPT drive

Forum thread started by steveh2009 on Thu, 2012-08-09 22:31

I made some room on a Hackintosh drive (GPT drive) for 2 FAT32 partitions (as placeholders). I booted up the latest Haiku Nightly off of a USB pen drive. I went to the GPT drive (with DriveSetup) and can see the 2 FAT partitions. I tried selecting either one and could not reformat either one with a BFS file system. DriveSetup said both were read-only.

Is it not possible to make them writable so they can be reformatted? I tried to bring up GPARTED off of a CD but could not find any way to mark them as writable. In Windows 7, same thing.

Anyone run into this problem before?

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Comments

Re: Cannot create BFS partition on GPT drive

by Diver - 2012-08-10 06:56

https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8823

Re: Cannot create BFS partition on GPT drive

by ModeenF - 2012-08-10 08:39

I hope you din't mount them?

Re: Cannot create BFS partition on GPT drive

by steveh2009 - 2012-08-10 13:57

Right, DriveSetup won't let you format a mounted drive. The menu option is disabled.

Re: Cannot create BFS partition on GPT drive

by leavengood - 2012-08-11 16:18
steveh2009 wrote:

Right, DriveSetup won't let you format a mounted drive. The menu option is disabled.

If you unmount those drives can you then format them?

Re: Cannot create BFS partition on GPT drive

by steveh2009 - 2012-08-12 00:03

When I un-mount the partitions, I cannot format them. DriveSetup says that they are read-only.

That's okay. The GPT issues seem to be well-known at this stage so they'll probably get fixed.

In the meantime, it's not all that bad to use Virtual Box instead of going native.

Re: Cannot create BFS partition on GPT drive

by ronald-scheckelhoff - 2012-10-15 21:27

WARNING WILL ROBINSON: GPT + OLD-BIOS-SYSTEM = NIGHTMARE