MacNCheesy Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 I successfully installed Kalyway 10.5.2 on my my computer and had it working pretty well, but I installed one two many demo applications and screwed something up. I thought I was covered because I have been using Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) to make images (dmg files) of my OS X drive at different stages so I could always roll back to an older install. Well, things have not worked out as good as hoped. I tried to use CCC to roll back to an older install last night (I have a bootable image on a external firewire drive created with CCC) and my main internal Mac OS X drive and external boot drive would not boot after restoring the image. I am guessing that restoring the older image screwed up PC EFI or Darwin, but I am not sure how to fix it. My system is set up with only OS X installed. Hardware is as follows, ASUS P5B Deluxe, ATI x1950 Pro, 3 SATA 500GB HDs. I partitioned my HDs with GUID, Mac OS Extended (Journaled). PC EFI and Darwin are installed as is default on Kalyway. Can someone please tell me how get my recovered CCC image bootable again? Is there a better/safer/easier way to make backup images of an OSx86 install to recover from stupid mistakes? Thanks in advance for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whalid Posted May 14, 2008 Share Posted May 14, 2008 Can you post the error? I did that with SuperDuper. The only thing: I had to manually activate the new partition again. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNCheesy Posted May 14, 2008 Author Share Posted May 14, 2008 Whalid, There is no error, just a little scramble text with the last line ending with a single J. The only way to get any response is to put a bootable CD/DVD, like the Kalyway DVD, in a drive. I was able to do a reinstall of Kalyway and get it working again, but I want restore one of my images to save a lot of time reinstalling software and drivers. Thanks, M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gujal Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 Carbon copy or super duper will not back up the Darwin+EFI bootloader. All you have to do is after restoring the image, install Darwin Bootloader and EFI Manually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacNCheesy Posted May 15, 2008 Author Share Posted May 15, 2008 Anyone know of an easy way to manually re-install Darwin and EFI using the Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD? Is using Drive Genius 2 or Acronis True Image 11 a better way to safely/easily backup and restore bootable OSx86 images? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knewsom Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 I just use Time Machine, and if I need to restore, I wipe my HD, reinstall from Leo4All, then restore my data and settings from Time Machine on boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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