Rewrite the MacOSXx86 darwin Bootrecord?

[letni]

I am switching hard drives and am trying to clone my images (XP and 10.4.5) to a larger drive. I first have used carbon copy cloner to image the OSX partition to the new drive (will use ghost later for XP). I have tried to boot 10.4.5 (copied) off the new drive and aparently darwin bootloader isn't installed in the bootrecord for the copied partition.

 

I went into linux and and made sure the copied partition was active on the drive and I even tried doing a dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdc1 bs=512 count=1 to copy the first 512 bytes (which should be the darwin bootloader) over to the new partition. This still won't let 10.4.5 boot off the new drive. I even booted up the install DVD and and went to startup disk and selected the 10.4.5 as it found it as a bootable volume. Still won't boot.

 

I remember that when 10.4.1 was first out there the only good way to copy (with carbon copy cloner) or install it was to first install darwin on the drive (which installed the darwin bootloader) and then overinstalling 10.4.1 onto that same volume. I know this method will solve the problem but that means I have to find a copy of darwin and go through that install process..

 

Anyone (with some experience in this area) have any other suggestions?

[-TiLT-]

Maybe this works:

 

1. Clone windows partition

2. install osx 10.4.5 on a desired partition (turning of al languages, fonts and printer drivers this should be done in about 15 minutes)

3. Clone your OSX over the one you just installed

 

A bit more time consuming but this puts the bootloader on your HD.

 

Greetings