JaE-V Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 After using the carbon copy method to clone my drive i was left without a booting partition. Yes i can boot from the disk using its bootloader and also the older installation with the rd=disk*s* commands, therefore im fully aware its just the bootloader. I found this tutorial here over at osx86scene but its rather not usefull at all written by SynthetiX. Seems like a rather simple process and would be beneficial for all. Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaE-V Posted January 1, 2008 Author Share Posted January 1, 2008 *bump* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claud3 Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 why dont you try and load kalyway and use one of their bootloaders? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsalok4u Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Did you try booting with TOH RC2 disk and then running the "script.sh LeopardVolName" from/usr/misc folder? That script is suppose to install darwin bootloader on the volume specified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaE-V Posted January 3, 2008 Author Share Posted January 3, 2008 Did you try booting with TOH RC2 disk and then running the "script.sh LeopardVolName" from/usr/misc folder? That script is suppose to install darwin bootloader on the volume specified. havent been able to find that usr folder in leo.....but if its that simple im gonna try it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Envying Posted January 3, 2008 Share Posted January 3, 2008 After using the carbon copy method to clone my drive i was left without a booting partition. Yes i can boot from the disk using its bootloader and also the older installation with the rd=disk*s* commands, therefore im fully aware its just the bootloader. I found this tutorial here over at osx86scene but its rather not usefull at all written by SynthetiX. Seems like a rather simple process and would be beneficial for all. Thanks in advance! This guide is better! http://forum.osx86scene.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=209 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaE-V Posted January 4, 2008 Author Share Posted January 4, 2008 This guide is better!http://forum.osx86scene.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=209 awesome, thanks alot...now i just cant find those files on my JaS disk...hidden? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 @Jae-V i copied all the file you need in the attachment. and it's known that sata cannot be blessed in the osx nor dvd, someone said they can do it in linux, i haven't tried that yet, maybe you can give it a try fixboot.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaE-V Posted January 19, 2008 Author Share Posted January 19, 2008 @Jae-Vi copied all the file you need in the attachment. and it's known that sata cannot be blessed in the osx nor dvd, someone said they can do it in linux, i haven't tried that yet, maybe you can give it a try fixboot.zip i seriously cant find where to put these files lol and im attempting to do this inside of a leopard installation, the first command in the steps posted in the link leaves me with the no such file in directory result Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaE-V Posted January 20, 2008 Author Share Posted January 20, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 1) Update MBR bootloader and flag partition 1 as bootable: sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 （change to the disk where the partition you want to activated) fdisk: 1> update Machine code updated. fdisk:*1> f 1 Partition 1 marked active. fdisk:*1> w Device could not be accessed exclusively. A reboot will be needed for changes to take effect. OK? [n] y Writing MBR at offset 0. fdisk: 1> q 2) put boot1h at the beginning of the partition: (put it all in the root of your drive) sudo dd if=/boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s1 bs=512 count=1 (change the bold part to the exact partition you want to activated) 3) run startupfiletool (don't know what it does exactly, it somehow embeds boot code into the hfs): sudo /startupfiletool -v /dev/rdisk0s1 /boot (same as before) 4) bless the partition: sudo bless -device /dev/disk0s1 -setBoot -verbose (you may not do this successfullly) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaE-V Posted January 20, 2008 Author Share Posted January 20, 2008 1) Update MBR bootloader and flag partition 1 as bootable:sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 （change to the disk where the partition you want to activated) fdisk: 1> update Machine code updated. fdisk:*1> f 1 Partition 1 marked active. fdisk:*1> w Device could not be accessed exclusively. A reboot will be needed for changes to take effect. OK? [n] y Writing MBR at offset 0. fdisk: 1> q 2) put boot1h at the beginning of the partition: (put it all in the root of your drive) sudo dd if=/boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s1 bs=512 count=1 (change the bold part to the exact partition you want to activated) 3) run startupfiletool (don't know what it does exactly, it somehow embeds boot code into the hfs): sudo /startupfiletool -v /dev/rdisk0s1 /boot (same as before) 4) bless the partition: sudo bless -device /dev/disk0s1 -setBoot -verbose (you may not do this successfullly) step 2 leaves me with no such file in directory lol i just threw those files in the root of my sata drive.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socal swimmer Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 step 2 leaves me with no such file in directory lol i just threw those files in the root of my sata drive.... if you did this from the install dvd, then you must type: sudo dd if=/Volumes/OSdrivenamehere/boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s1 bs=512 count=1 (change the bold part to the exact partition you want to activated) I would highly recommend installing pc_efi if you can. It would fix your problem times 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted January 20, 2008 Share Posted January 20, 2008 @socal swimmer there is no point to install pc_efi if vanilla kernel cannot be used.. @jae-V if u do it in the os x, u just seemly replace the locations e.g. boot1h , if u see it on the desktop, just right click the file and get info, it will tell you where the file is, so just replace the link in the terminal with that one.. so what're the difficulties did u got?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaE-V Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 got it, thanks alot! also acronis true image 11 copies to partition perfectly for anyone else that might have this issue, so if you use acronis you will not need this guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 i wonder if acronis can shrink the partition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaE-V Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 i wonder if acronis can shrink the partition? Grab drive genius, the latest is 1.5.3 i just got my hands on it and its great. Its mac software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jiant Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 1) Update MBR bootloader and flag partition 1 as bootable:sudo fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 （change to the disk where the partition you want to activated) fdisk: 1> update Machine code updated. fdisk:*1> f 1 Partition 1 marked active. fdisk:*1> w Device could not be accessed exclusively. A reboot will be needed for changes to take effect. OK? [n] y Writing MBR at offset 0. fdisk: 1> q 2) put boot1h at the beginning of the partition: (put it all in the root of your drive) sudo dd if=/boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s1 bs=512 count=1 (change the bold part to the exact partition you want to activated) 3) run startupfiletool (don't know what it does exactly, it somehow embeds boot code into the hfs): sudo /startupfiletool -v /dev/rdisk0s1 /boot (same as before) 4) bless the partition: sudo bless -device /dev/disk0s1 -setBoot -verbose (you may not do this successfullly) u mean boot from the x86 10.5 DVD? i m boot from DVD but the sudo command can't use... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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