foodfightr Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 I backed up my fully working leopard installation using carbon copy. I messed up my system attempting to install 10.5.3 and attempted to restore using Carbon Copy. It says the restore was succesful and I see all the OS X files on the drive, but when I attempt to boot nothing happens at all. It doesnt appear to be detecting any sort of OS on the disk or doing anything... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gujal Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Carbon copy does not backup or restore the Darwin Bootloader. Search the forum on the procedure to install the Darwin boot loader and it should work fine (as you have already restored the data) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 use pc_efi_v80 to prep your HD then CCCloner but unmark the "Erase Harddrive" OR try pc_efi_v80 afterwards! SticMAN I backed up my fully working leopard installation using carbon copy. I messed up my system attempting to install 10.5.3 and attempted to restore using Carbon Copy. It says the restore was succesful and I see all the OS X files on the drive, but when I attempt to boot nothing happens at all. It doesnt appear to be detecting any sort of OS on the disk or doing anything... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foodfightr Posted June 3, 2008 Author Share Posted June 3, 2008 Last login: Mon Jun 2 22:04:07 on ttys000 joes-mac-pro:~ joe$ diskutil list /dev/disk0 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *139.7 Gi disk0 1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1 2: Apple_HFS Macintosh 139.4 Gi disk0s2 /dev/disk1 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme *139.7 Gi disk1 1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk1s1 2: Apple_HFS Kalyway 139.4 Gi disk1s2 /dev/disk2 #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: Apple_partition_scheme *2.6 Gi disk2 1: Apple_partition_map 31.5 Ki disk2s1 2: Apple_HFS iATKOS 2.0i 2.6 Gi disk2s3 joes-mac-pro:~ joe$ sudo -s Password: bash-3.2# cd downloads bash-3.2# cd "efi v8" bash-3.2# cd pc_efi_v80 bash-3.2# ./startupfiletool /dev/rdisk0s2 ./boot_v8 HFS+ filesystem detected Looking for 1 words free reading 308011008,4096 Marking word 2 writing back 308011008,4096 allocated blocks 32 at start 64 Then type.... dd if=./guid/boot1h of=/dev/rdisk0s2 bs=512 count=1 (Enter) dd if=./guid/boot0 of=/dev/disk0 bs=400 count=1 (Enter) and continue... bash-3.2# fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory Enter 'help' for information fdisk: 1> p Disk: /dev/rdisk0 geometry: 18241/255/63 [293046768 sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending #: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 293046767] <Unknown ID> 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused 4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused fdisk: 1> f 1 Partition 1 marked active. fdisk:*1> write Writing MBR at offset 0. fdisk: 1> exit Works now! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckplumber Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 I had this trouble too. I have a working 10.5.3 on one SATA disk and wanted to try GUID on the other. Formatted as guid, cloned and then did the above install for Darwin. Do I need to install Darwin and then clone, without erasing disk? Darwin can not be post installed as it is actually on a diff partition and thus can not be installed after?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alainc Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Easy. With Chameleon , you can post install EFI bootloader. GA-P35-DS3R rev 2.0 / OS X Leopard 10.5.3 - Kalyway - / Core2Duo E 6750 / 4 x 1 Gb DDR2 800MHz / GeFORCE 8600 GT 256 Mo - NVkush - / Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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