StNick Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Having installed 10.4.4 onto a single (Journalled) Mac Partition (the first partition type in the list using the installation utility) I noticed an immediate issue. My problem is that upon booting my computer I am always presented with the error 'Hard disk boot sector invalid', H retries and any other key tries a network boot. If I use the Installation DVD I can successfully boot to a fully functional system by typing 'rd=disk0s2' as I'm sure anyone can appreciate this is annoying at the best of times. Is there a way to fix the boot sector or re-install the Darwin boot loader simmilar to that of the DVD onto my Primary and only partition? This would be such a relief. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11852-no-boot-loader/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Flipse Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 What you'll have to do is the following. If you can get to windows that is: Install a application like Acronis Disk Director Suite. Convert that Partition that holds MacOSX into an Primary partition. After that you can install Acronis OS Selector which came with the Acronis Disk Director Suite. Now just restart en choose if you wanna boot up Windows or MacOSX. That's about it Good luck, John Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11852-no-boot-loader/#findComment-74527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StNick Posted March 15, 2006 Author Share Posted March 15, 2006 I'm now pretty sure there must be something I did wrong from the installation, I had to create new partion tables, and I thought it would be logical just to tell the utility to create a single Mac partition and assumed it would automatically make that a bootable and active partition... was that my biggest mistake? Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11852-no-boot-loader/#findComment-75699 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StNick Posted March 15, 2006 Author Share Posted March 15, 2006 Hi John, Sadly I don't have direct access to windows as this is a laptop that I have set to use as a dedicated Mac. I'm assuming I must have set something wrong upon installation? Would it not be normal for the installation program to automatically detect the primary partition and make it bootable? Second, is there not a partition program for the Mac that I could use to repair this error, perhaps make the partition 'Primary' and active? sorry if I just sound dumb... I read in a post a while back that I could use 'Partiton Magic' to make the partition active or something... would I need to remove the hard drive from my laptop and plug into a windows box... would this even solve my problem? I would prefer to keep this as a single partiton set-up, is that simply a bad idea? It is the way I have always used Windows in the past but am happy to change if it is wiser to do otherwise, I am of course assuming it is POSSIBLE to use just a single partition? Thankyou for taking the time to reply to my posts. Regards, Nick Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11852-no-boot-loader/#findComment-75740 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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