copperboy Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 I wanted to *ghost* the leopard before I play the gfx-efi thing. Some guy told me to use the disk utility. I made a dmg image for my leopard installation. Unfortunately, I did not succeed with the gfx-efi thing. After I restored the image with disk utility, I found a completely non-bootable system.I googled with another machine, and I found many people had this problem. There were many solutions, fdisk -e, fdisk -u, etc. but none of them worked for me. I think the best bet is to install it again. I booted with iatkos v2.0i dvd, and read the "agree or disagree" part very carefully. I found there was an easy way to make it bootable again -- rebuild the darwin bootloader. Here it is: 1. boot your PC with iatkos v2.0i dvd 2. press F8, type -s, hit enter 3. wait until you see the prompt 4. type darwin, hit enter 5. follow the on-screen instruction to build the darwin bootloader 6. type reboot, hit enter 7. now you should have a bootable machine Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/107183-boot-it-again-after-restore-with-diskutil/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschilling Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 wow, it's that easy? I wonder if it would work the same with any version of osx. Would that also work with a Time Machine backup? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/107183-boot-it-again-after-restore-with-diskutil/#findComment-760522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
copperboy Posted May 28, 2008 Author Share Posted May 28, 2008 not yet tried with time machine backup, but it should work if the problem was caused by the darwin bootloadernot yet tried with time machine backup, but it should work if the problem was caused by the darwin bootloader Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/107183-boot-it-again-after-restore-with-diskutil/#findComment-760564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschilling Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 That is the problem: the bootloader. Same thing when using CC Cloner, or SuperDuper, so that may work for those backups too. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/107183-boot-it-again-after-restore-with-diskutil/#findComment-761978 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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