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I was trying to upgrade my Hackitosh to the latest update of Leopard (10.5.3) but I was unsuccessful.

 

So, when my "hacky" got "canned" I tough I will just boot from my "Kaly" install DVD and restore the system with Time Machine...

 

Well it worked, it did restore the system, but now I have to use the Kalyway DVD to boot my computer.

 

I've try may ways to make the HDD bootable.

 

1. I make sure that the partition was set active by:

fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0

 

It shows the partition to be active.

 

2. I reloaded the system with "kaly's DVD" and the system boot it up.

 

3. Proceeded to reload with Time machine and I got the same problem.

just a "blinking" curser, like it's waiting for a boot loader or something...

 

When I do a Ctrl-Alt-Del, put the DVD back and the system boots up to the last restore from Time machine.

 

4. Lastly, I try to make the HDD bootable by the following command:

 

1. I opened a terminal window and log as "Super User" and entered the following command:

# bless -verbose --folder "/Volume/rdisk0/System/Library/CoreServices" --bootinfo

 

No luck.

 

Does anybody have any suggestions?

  • 1 month later...

Did you find a way to solve this? I'm having the same problem right now. I botched the upgrade to 10.5.3, so I restored from a Time Machine update. Restore went OK, bu the computed became unresponsive at the Restore Completed screen. I forced a reboot, and now I can't boot from the HDD after the restore from Time Machine. I'd rather not have to reinstall everything on the machine, but if I have to, I might take the opportuinity to upgrade the hardware :)

 

Anyways, good thing I keep all my data and info on the MacBook also.

 

 

thanks in advance!

 

Luc

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