entity119 Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Hi All Would someone be able to suggest a relatively straightforward method of making a 1:1 image of a working Kalyway 10.5.2 install? I have a 160gb SATA drive that I'm trying to clone to a 250gb SATA drive of the same make so as to free up some room. I've been doing a fair bit of searching and not having a lot of luck - I've tried using Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper to make backups, both of them seem to produce identical copies of all the files but don't end up actually bootable - the machine just sits there flashing a blinking cursor at me. I've used diskutil/fdisk to make the partition active on the backup drive, its listed as active etc but never loads. I've formatted the drive as both MBR and GUID in Disk Utility (within Leopard) and it doesn't make a difference, I can reboot all day and not have the backup drive be bootable; plug the main drive back in and it all works fine I'd imagine that I'm missing some little partition of 8mb or 200mb or whatever it is that EFI/MBR use to store their setup information; my question is, is there a tool to automate creating this information? ie, some little tool that duplicates the entire drive, partitions and all? I've tried PQMagic (detects drive, errors) and Ghost 2003 (does slow copy, ends up with random letters at the bootloader stage) to no avail Any suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112177-making-bootable-backups/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
entity119 Posted June 23, 2008 Author Share Posted June 23, 2008 Also of note is that if I leave the Kalyway DVD in, but don't press any key to start off the CD, the HDD boots fine off the clone; it's like the Bootloader isn't present. I've done fdisk -u numerous times to no avail :/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112177-making-bootable-backups/#findComment-793984 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbonkers Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 firstly, mbr or guid? once you know it, go to system>library>installation in the kalyway 10.5.2 DVD you will see boot_guid and boot_mbr or similar. drag the appropriate installation to your desktop and run it. install it to your cloned hdd. if you are on guid, then use boot_guid. mbt then boot_mbr. DO NOT INSTALL BOTH Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112177-making-bootable-backups/#findComment-794084 Share on other sites More sharing options...
entity119 Posted June 23, 2008 Author Share Posted June 23, 2008 No sign of that file in the /System or /Library folders on the DVD when I attempt to find it via Terminal from within OSX. Booted off the DVD, nothing relevant that I can see there either? If those files are just bash scripts or similar, would I be able to trouble you for a copy? I'd guess they're just running some bless commands etc, but I'm not entirely certain Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112177-making-bootable-backups/#findComment-794510 Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach-os Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 copycatx would work.if you don´t have it - look for kalyway 10.5.1 always booting after cloning.works perfect on my machine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112177-making-bootable-backups/#findComment-794622 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbonkers Posted June 24, 2008 Share Posted June 24, 2008 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...st&id=28804 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112177-making-bootable-backups/#findComment-794752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
entity119 Posted June 24, 2008 Author Share Posted June 24, 2008 Thanks for that Now for some reason CCC and SuperDuper are producing backups that are read only for some reason, need to figure out the cause. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/112177-making-bootable-backups/#findComment-795063 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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