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Motherboard: EP45-UD3R

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad

Memory: 4 GB

System: Mac OS X 10.6.4

Bootloader: Chameleon RC 4

/dev/rdisk0 is 1.5 TB hard drive

 

I've used Kakewalk to install Snow Leopard on my PC some time ago, and things have been working great, until recently. The filesystem my OS X installation was on got seriously corrupted somehow. So I removed the hard drive, installed it into another Mac, and ran DiskWarrior on it. Afterwards, my system partition is readable and looks fixed, but when I put it back into my PC, I can't boot off of it anymore. Googling around I found out that apparently running DiskWarrior breaks Chameleon, so that's probably what went wrong. The error message I get is:

boot0: error

 

I can still boot off of my OS X installation by using a bootable USB drive I made using the KakewalkBoot installer. After using it to boot my original OS X installation, I tried running the KakewalkBoot package on my main hard drive, but still get the boot0: error message. I also tried manually installing Chameleon RC4 using the method here, but that didn't work either. It did change the message I got on startup to:

boot0: GPT

boot0: testing

boot0: testing

boot0: error

 

I don't know what to do next. Something is wrong with my bootloader, but I don't know how to fix it given that the above didn't work. Can anyone help me?   

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Relevant info:

Motherboard: EP45-UD3R

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad

Memory: 4 GB

System: Mac OS X 10.6.4

Bootloader: Chameleon RC 4

/dev/rdisk0 is 1.5 TB hard drive

 

I've used Kakewalk to install Snow Leopard on my PC some time ago, and things have been working great, until recently. The filesystem my OS X installation was on got seriously corrupted somehow. So I removed the hard drive, installed it into another Mac, and ran DiskWarrior on it. Afterwards, my system partition is readable and looks fixed, but when I put it back into my PC, I can't boot off of it anymore. Googling around I found out that apparently running DiskWarrior breaks Chameleon, so that's probably what went wrong. The error message I get is:

boot0: error

 

I can still boot off of my OS X installation by using a bootable USB drive I made using the KakewalkBoot installer. After using it to boot my original OS X installation, I tried running the KakewalkBoot package on my main hard drive, but still get the boot0: error message. I also tried manually installing Chameleon RC4 using the method here, but that didn't work either. It did change the message I got on startup to:

boot0: GPT

boot0: testing

boot0: testing

boot0: error

 

I don't know what to do next. Something is wrong with my bootloader, but I don't know how to fix it given that the above didn't work. Can anyone help me?   

Try installing Chameleon with this installer (set designation to your PC drive) http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=201850

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Still trying to get this to work... I've been looking through the pages in the search you linked to, as well as Googling around for other potential solutions, but still nothing fixes my problem.

 

 

The partition is active, and I've reinstalled Chameleon multiple times using different methods, but no matter what, I still get some kind of boot0 error.

 

Does anyone have any other ideas concerning what's going wrong?  What did DiskWarrior do to my partition that's broken Chameleon this badly?

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Still trying to get this to work... I've been looking through the pages in the search you linked to, as well as Googling around for other potential solutions, but still nothing fixes my problem.

 

 

The partition is active, and I've reinstalled Chameleon multiple times using different methods, but no matter what, I still get some kind of boot0 error.

 

Does anyone have any other ideas concerning what's going wrong?  What did DiskWarrior do to my partition that's broken Chameleon this badly?

Have you a spare drive big enough to clone this drive (all partitions) to, and what partitions do you have on it.

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Relevant info:

Motherboard: EP45-UD3R

Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad

Memory: 4 GB

System: Mac OS X 10.6.4

Bootloader: Chameleon RC 4

/dev/rdisk0 is 1.5 TB hard drive

 

I've used Kakewalk to install Snow Leopard on my PC some time ago, and things have been working great, until recently. The filesystem my OS X installation was on got seriously corrupted somehow. So I removed the hard drive, installed it into another Mac, and ran DiskWarrior on it. Afterwards, my system partition is readable and looks fixed, but when I put it back into my PC, I can't boot off of it anymore. Googling around I found out that apparently running DiskWarrior breaks Chameleon, so that's probably what went wrong. The error message I get is:

boot0: error

 

I can still boot off of my OS X installation by using a bootable USB drive I made using the KakewalkBoot installer. After using it to boot my original OS X installation, I tried running the KakewalkBoot package on my main hard drive, but still get the boot0: error message. I also tried manually installing Chameleon RC4 using the method here, but that didn't work either. It did change the message I got on startup to:

boot0: GPT

boot0: testing

boot0: testing

boot0: error

 

I don't know what to do next. Something is wrong with my bootloader, but I don't know how to fix it given that the above didn't work. Can anyone help me?   

 

It's deffinatly a BL problem. you need to install the same boot loader you used before or better. which one did you have? Do you have access to another osx?

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Ahem..

Insert the iAtkos s3 v2 dvd they have 3 bootloaders you can install from the utilities menu. find your main drive using "diskutil list" in terminal (again under utilities).

it should work, i switch over to another hard drive today using time machine then loading the bl using the same method. first start you should use -v -f

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Have you a spare drive big enough to clone this drive (all partitions) to, and what partitions do you have on it.

Sadly I don't right now.  My system drive only has one 1.5 TB partition.  If necessary I might try picking up another 1.5 TB drive, though.

 

Insert the iAtkos s3 v2 dvd they have 3 bootloaders you can install from the utilities menu. find your main drive using "diskutil list" in terminal (again under utilities).

it should work, i switch over to another hard drive today using time machine then loading the bl using the same method. first start you should use -v -f

I'm going to give this a try; will report back in a bit.

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Sadly I don't right now.  My system drive only has one 1.5 TB partition.  If necessary I might try picking up another 1.5 TB drive, though.

seems bolded quote is the reason on your problem. Cham don't like large partitions. it should be less 500Gb as I remember (but i'm not sure).

So you should spilt your disk before trying to install Cham again

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Thanks for the suggestion, but I still get:

boot0: GPT

boot0: testing

boot0: testing

boot0: error

Try adding a partition and making your boot partition less than 500gb. Install Chameleon. Remove the extra partition and expand the main partition. should boot

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Try adding a partition and making your boot partition less than 500gb. Install Chameleon. Remove the extra partition and expand the main partition. should boot

 

This is what I did originally, and it worked fine for months...until the drive developed errors that only DiskWarrior could repair (invalid index key). So now I get the boot0: error as well, even after reinstalling the same bootloader. Indeed, D_D's script says no bootloader is installed, even immediately after using the script itself to install the bootloader.

 

So I think the issue here is the partition size. I too have a 1.5TB drive, with 2 parts: 1 large (>1TB) primary, and a secondary for Windows. Eventually the disk will have more than 1TB of data on it, at which point I won't be able to re-do the trick to get around large partition sizes. So I guess the only long-term solution is to leave the boot partition 1TB o r less, just for Chameleon and the OS, so that DiskWarrior doesn't re-screw me if I ever need to use it again...anyone have a better solution?

 

Anyone know if the latest version of Chameleon still has this partition size incompatibility? If it does, I predict this issue becoming more and more common as drives >1TB become more commonplace...

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