Boot only possible with DVD in drive

[sebus]

Re-discovered my old 10.4.9 test image from GX270 (made with Superduper), and as I have few GX270 in the cupboard I restored this image.

With DVD in drive it boots fiine, otherwise it just sits there with cursor flashing.

 

Of course I tried all the usual things:

 

- made sure partition is active (with WinPE) as well with

 

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0

flag 1

update

write

quit

 

- boot off XP disc and run fixmbr in the console and reboot

 

- 1. Boot with the DVD

2. Press F8, then type "-s" (this will start some kind of a rescue shell)

3. type "cd /usr/standalone/i386"

4. type "dd if=boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1" (where X is the disk number and Y is the partition number on which you installed Leo, in your case it should read /dev/rdisk0s1)

5. type "dd if=boot0 of=/dev/diskX bs=400 count=1 (where X is again the disknumber, in your case: /dev/disk0)

6. type "reboot" and take out the DVD, your system should now be able to boot from the hard disk.

 

- checked that partition is definitely "AF"

 

None made any difference

 

How come it is so difficult to transfer Darwin bootloader onto a HD?

 

Thanks

 

sebus

[sebus]

Excellent thread on the subject:

 

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...=77596&st=0

 

Sadly NONE of the options worked for me

 

sebus

[sebus]

Restored the image one more time (this time using Diskutil while booted off 10.4.9 DVD) and it simply worked

First time I restored with Superduper while the drive was attached via USB on another machine (obviously something went wrong)

 

sebus