yozh Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 Hi everyone I was messing around with windows recovery console and I killed my osx bootloader, osx is on the seperate drive when I boot using the dvd it goes in to osx fine if I dont press any key, but if I just boot to it I get teh missing ntldr thingy, can some one please tell me how to write back my bootloader with out reinstalling. thank very much in advance. Hi everyone I was messing around with windows recovery console and I killed my osx bootloader, osx is on the seperate drive when I boot using the dvd it goes in to osx fine if I dont press any key, but if I just boot to it I get teh missing ntldr thingy, can some one please tell me how to write back my bootloader with out reinstalling. thank very much in advance. Oh forgot to mention windows is on other drive osx has it own drive, and even when I switch to boot from this drive I still get that message. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11954-killed-my-bootloader/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 If you don't know what you are doing in XP recovery console, you can use the install disc to do a repair install of the existing system. This will keep all your data, and installed software, but it will reset all the XP settings back to default, including the theme and any settings you changed... To do this, boot the XP install disc, and continue, like to do a normal install, but when it searches for existing installs, it will ask if you want to repair the one that is already there. To fix the OS X side of things, I would boot to your OS X hard drive using the DVD, then go to system preferences>>startup disk, and choose the OS X disk. I believe this will repair the bootloader on that disk, as well as make it active. At boot, you can then hit F8 to choose from the Windows install or the OS X one (from the darwin bootloader). Good luck Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11954-killed-my-bootloader/#findComment-75074 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yozh Posted March 14, 2006 Author Share Posted March 14, 2006 Thanks for the reply, well I fixed what I needed with the recovery console, but I broke something else lol. Well anyway its fixed now, starup disk in prefs didt work so I used this command and its all back to normal now. bless -device /dev/diskXsY -startupfile /usr/standalone/i386/boot Thanks again Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/11954-killed-my-bootloader/#findComment-75298 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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