Help: strange behavior of SD/Sandbox

[vinceshaw]

Originally Posted by dnanian

I've really never heard of this kind of thing happening before, Vince, and can only continue to suggest it's related to your Linux manipulations.

Dave. you are right: Gparted was the trouble maker.
I deleted the hidden partitions and re-partition them with Tiger's disk util, and copy the backup to it with SD, every thing is fine now. It took less than 20 minutes, but the trouble-shooting took one week. I knew it should be faster if just backup it, but my curiosity drives me.

It is also worthwhile. Through reading elsewhere, I know now that Linux parted is not GPT compatible and it will mess up partition table. The gptsync from rEFit can repair this. Also I learned during the struggle that disk util from Leopard can dynamically partition disk without data destruction, just like the BootCamp assistant.

Thanks again Dave, and happy birthday although it's a bit late.

Vince