Can only boot from Kalyway Install Disc

[cninja]

Alienware m5550, 2gb RAM, Core 2 Duo processor.

Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD Intel_Amd

 

Alright, so here's my problem. I have a 70gb hard drive in this laptop. There is one partition. I've installed OS X on it and it runs fine through the DVD (really, really well - I've installed a bunch of programs and they run pretty flawlessly) but I noticed that I can't eject the DVD. So, after that, I try to boot from the drive and I get an HFS+ Partition Error. I've done about two weeks of fiddling with this OS in addition to attempting a dual boot of Vista when I first started (iATKOS didn't work, gave up and just formatted the whole drive) and that includes my research on this HFS+ Partition Error garbage. None of the explanations/solutions I could find apply to me. It's set to AF, it's primary, it's active, I've tried using fdisk -u etc and nothing really helps. Am I doomed to keep the disc in here forever? I'd like to be able to watch DVDs on this thing someday >_>

 

Seriously, how do I have a partition error when there aren't any partitions? This doesn't make any sense.

 

Oh, and because the DVD is being used as the root, I have to restart my computer every time I want to plug or unplug an external or flash drive into the laptop. At least I got the drivers for my sound and ethernet to work.

Halp

[cninja]

Anybody? I'll give up and come back to OSx86 in a few months again if I have to. This totally blows though, I've got the thing up and running but I can't use any form of external media

 

I guess I'll just go install the Adobe CS3 Suite etc and keep working with this thing. Maybe sooner or later I'll find a fix.

 

I heard somewhere that you can only run Kalyway if you are going to dual boot. Is that true? Should I install XP as well and set up a bootloader?

[Enrico1985]

try booting in single user mode off the install DVD

check that your Leo partition is active in fdisk and that its type is 0xAF

then type

cd /usr/standalone/i386

dd if=boot1h of=/dev/r<yourleopartition> bs=512 count=1

./startupfiletool -v /dev/r<yourleopartition> ./boot

[code]

and reboot

[cninja]

try booting in single user mode off the install DVD

check that your Leo partition is active in fdisk and that its type is 0xAF

then type

cd /usr/standalone/i386

dd if=boot1h of=/dev/r<yourleopartition> bs=512 count=1

./startupfiletool -v /dev/r<yourleopartition> ./boot

[code]

and reboot

 

Nope. Thanks for the potential fix though, I've never seen that one before and I appreciate your effort.

Still got an HFS+ Partition Error. Thing is, you tell me to make sure the Leo partition is active etc, and you have me input stuff about my leo partition (rdisk0 etc) but that's the only partition I have. The third command you had me enter (./startupfiletool) resulted in the error "Unrecognized file system."

 

Try again? >_>

[Vista Master]

Try This Tutorial

[bofors]

try booting in single user mode off the install DVD

check that your Leo partition is active in fdisk and that its type is 0xAF

then type

cd /usr/standalone/i386

dd if=boot1h of=/dev/r<yourleopartition> bs=512 count=1

./startupfiletool -v /dev/r<yourleopartition> ./boot

[code]

and reboot

 

This would not be applicable to GUID-partitioned disks, right? fdisk works with MBR-partitioned disks only, right?

[mac_cute]

@bofors

 

Actually,if you have GUID,you can install the Bootloader (having EFI 8) with this code:

 

cd  /usr/standalone/i386
dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512  count=1
dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/diskX bs=400 count=1
./startupfiletool -v /dev/diskXsY ./boot_v8

 

It works...

[bofors]

@bofors

 

Actually,if you have GUID,you can install the Bootloader (having EFI 8) with this code:

 

cd  /usr/standalone/i386
dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512  count=1
dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/diskX bs=400 count=1
./startupfiletool -v /dev/diskXsY ./boot_v8

 

It works...

 

Thank you.

 

Apparently EFI v8 was not installed on my Kalyway 10.5.2 installation, the ./boot_v8 file is not present. Neither is the ./guid directory.

 

I am going to reinstall Kalyway with some different parameters (and perhaps reformat to MBR) to see it that fixes the problem.

[mac_cute]

@bofors

 

No problem...

 

EDIT

 

Of course,you need to boot from the DVD with -s

[bofors]

Of course,you need to boot from the DVD with -s

 

Umm... why would I need to that?

[mac_cute]

Well,after install Leo,you don't need to mount any drive to install manually the Bootloader.So,that's why the -s flag (at least,that's the way that I have done this )

[bofors]

Well,after install Leo,you don't need to mount any drive to install manually the Bootloader.So,that's why the -s flag (at least,that's the way that I have done this )

 

Oh, I see now. You were talking about booting into Single User mode on the DVD.

 

Anyways, I solved my problem by apparently reformatting my installation disk to MBR (I made tweaked some other options in the Kalyway 10.5.2 menu, but I really can not imagine those making much difference, essentially I used the defaults to make this work).

[mac_cute]

Yes,that's what I was talking about.But it doesn't matter:you got your Leo install...Good luck!.

[2-D]

does your Alienware m5550 have the ati x1400 video card in it? if so would u minde helping me out i have the same laptop and i cant get the sound working and the resolution is rele bad

[abhi93]

I got that error too... just use MBR instead of GUID! =]