jfielding Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Everything is working great (i installed Kalyway 10.5.2) but i can only boot using the DVD. All drivers are installed fine. Many thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101771-everything-installed-great-including-drivers-but-only-boots-using-dvd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xosx86 Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Everything is working great (i installed Kalyway 10.5.2) but i can only boot using the DVD. All drivers are installed fine. Many thanks You need to set the OS X partition active! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101771-everything-installed-great-including-drivers-but-only-boots-using-dvd/#findComment-725877 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfielding Posted April 27, 2008 Author Share Posted April 27, 2008 sorry I'm such a noob! how do i do that ?! Thanks in advance Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101771-everything-installed-great-including-drivers-but-only-boots-using-dvd/#findComment-726688 Share on other sites More sharing options...
timeshifter Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Boot your system with a Gparted CD and you should see the options. You may need to set the flag for boot on the partition. On mine it was already flagged but didn't work. I had to unflag and reflag it and that did the trick. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101771-everything-installed-great-including-drivers-but-only-boots-using-dvd/#findComment-726906 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfielding Posted April 28, 2008 Author Share Posted April 28, 2008 I've set the partition as active in the mac install. I went to utilities and used the terminal fdisk -e /dev/rdisk1 (its defo disk 1 - checked that out using diskutil list) p 2 f 2 (against, that's definately the partition its on) write y exit. It still wont boot unless the DVD install for leopard is in the drive. Any thoughts? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101771-everything-installed-great-including-drivers-but-only-boots-using-dvd/#findComment-727052 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macker Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 I also have the same problem of it not booting without the DVD being in! To get me back booting to XP/Vista i have to change the active partition back again Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101771-everything-installed-great-including-drivers-but-only-boots-using-dvd/#findComment-727193 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fassl Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 if just flagging active doesnt help also write new PBR and bootloader dd if=/usr/standalone/i386/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1 /usr/sbin/startupfiletool /dev/rdiskXsY /usr/standalone/i386/boot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101771-everything-installed-great-including-drivers-but-only-boots-using-dvd/#findComment-727221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gujal Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 /dev/rdisk1 means it is the second disk. Unless you select to boot from second disk in BIOS by some means it is not going to boot from it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101771-everything-installed-great-including-drivers-but-only-boots-using-dvd/#findComment-727251 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfielding Posted April 28, 2008 Author Share Posted April 28, 2008 I'm not an advanced user, sorry. What and where does all that go? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101771-everything-installed-great-including-drivers-but-only-boots-using-dvd/#findComment-727404 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fassl Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Type that in the Terminal off your install dvd. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101771-everything-installed-great-including-drivers-but-only-boots-using-dvd/#findComment-728331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfielding Posted April 29, 2008 Author Share Posted April 29, 2008 dd if=/usr/standalone/i386/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 count=1 /usr/sbin/startupfiletool /dev/rdiskXsY /usr/standalone/i386/boot for this bit that says /dev/rdiskXsY am I just replacing the rdishXsY with rdisk1 (as that's the correct one) or am I typing exactly whats been written there ? Many thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101771-everything-installed-great-including-drivers-but-only-boots-using-dvd/#findComment-728491 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fassl Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 replace X with the HDD number and Y with the slice/Partition number u can get those numbers in Disk Utility or in terminal with "diskutil list" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101771-everything-installed-great-including-drivers-but-only-boots-using-dvd/#findComment-728602 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfielding Posted April 29, 2008 Author Share Posted April 29, 2008 dd is an unknown command. doesnt recoginise it. What exactly shall i do when i turn the console on in setup? Just start typing away then? Didnt seem to have any effect . . . Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/101771-everything-installed-great-including-drivers-but-only-boots-using-dvd/#findComment-728628 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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