martinc Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Okay after looking around my 10.4.4 box that won't boot I've got some clues to help solve this. bless --info returns Could not find IODeviceTree:/options Can't access "efi-boot-device" NVRAM variable efi? That shouldn't be there.... /Volumes/OSX/usr/standalone/i386 has one file in it: boot.efi once again, shouldn't be there. If anyone has their 10.4.3 system booting off of one disk named disk0s1 please PM me, I need your bootx.bootinfo from the i386 folder. I've just copied the bootx.bootinfo from the ppc folder (i dunno why that was there) to the i386 folder. I'll reboot and tell you how it goes, although the efi-boot-device will prolly still block me. DISCLAIMER: I'm not circumventing the efi, mods, so try not to edit/close this topic until I do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinc Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 Okay copying it didn't work for me, I think it's something with the bless command. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 If you can get to a shell prompt, it should work something like this: sudo bless --device /dev/disk0s1 --bootinfo --setBoot If it complains about --setBoot, it didn't find NVRAM like is inside a regular Apple computer to store startup volume info onto. Safe to ignore that warning. The --bootinfo should add the appropriate BOOTX file for the configuration. It will not erase or record a new EFI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinc Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 nope I get: Could not find IODeviceTree:/options Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Could not find IODeviceTree:/options means there's no NVRAM in your system. Ignore the error. If the command didn't fix the boot, you need a boot manager. There's about 4011 threads on the net about boot managers for OS x86. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinc Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 It's a native install though. I'll try the acronis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Same problem here, same native install - solutions were one of the following for me: 1) Leave the installer DVD in the drive - when booted and you not press anything while it waits, it finds the "active" OS X partition and loads it. 2) Replace MBR with a cheap-and-dirty boot loader/partition menu. I default to XP, press 2 for OS X 10.4.4 and press 3 for OS X 10.4.3. Ugly, but apparently I can't get around JUST relying on the "active" bit in the Partition table to be everything I was hoping it could be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinc Posted February 27, 2006 Author Share Posted February 27, 2006 Maybe I'll just wait until tommorrow when my 10.4.3 download finishes and I'll use the utility to set this disk as my startup, that might help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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