Reinstalling OSX in a partitioned hard drive?

[rsilves]

Hi guys. I'd like to have some guides on how to install OSX on a partitioned drive.

 

These are the facts:

I installed Kalyway 10.5.2 on a friend's computer, made it work OK. It was in a 320GB hard drive, not partitioned.

Then she accidentally accepted Apple's update.

I connected her drive to my Hackintosh, partitioned it, and copied all her files to the second partition.

Then tried reinstalling the system (overwriting, erasing and installing, many methods), and it doesn't work. Sometimes it boots until the blue background of the desktop, but starts a loop with black screen, blue desktop, black screen... And sometimes it says there's no bootable drive.

I remember that the first time I installed the system, I had to boot again from the Install DVD, enter the terminal, and do some changes to make the drive bootable. Now I can't find that forum, because I don't have the computer here, and cannot remember the error message exactly.

 

I think there might be a "common" way to do this without these problems, which I don't know, so I'll be glad if you can explain me how to.

 

Thanks,

Rodrigo

[geiman]

Sounds like you've got an out dated disk. Some of the older Leopard disks didn't install the boot loader correctly so it was required to open up the terminal and manually install one. If I was you, I'd grab a new disk. Chances are the newer disk will make your re-installation much easier since we have had many advancements since then and hardware support has also increased.

[rsilves]

Sounds like you've got an out dated disk. Some of the older Leopard disks didn't install the boot loader correctly so it was required to open up the terminal and manually install one. If I was you, I'd grab a new disk. Chances are the newer disk will make your re-installation much easier since we have had many advancements since then and hardware support has also increased.

 

Let's see... I could install OSX before, but then my friend broke the install by accepting OSX's update.

You say that that disk worked for "normal" installs but not for "partitioned disks" installs?

I remember having to enter the terminal and fix one thing before. But now I can't, and I think it's because now I'd have to fix 2 things (one for each partition) and I don't know how.

Am I getting it correctly?

 

Thanks

Rodrigo

[rsilves]

Now I'm in the computer.

I could make it boot, leaving the Kalyway Install DVD inside.

So it seems that yes, the problem is with the boot loader.

I remember having to fix something using fdisk the first time I installed and made it work. But the problem is what I mentioned before. When I did that, I only had one partitions. It seems that now I have to do something different with fdisk, having 2 patitions.

 

I searched in some posts but didn't find the way to check the current configurations of the boot loader.

I remember that, when I did it, I had to check the "name" of the partition and then change its "number" with fdisk. Now I don't know how to "check the name". If I could, then I'd check the name of the first and the second, and assign 1 and 2. I am just dreaming this would work, I don't understand anything of this actually.

 

Thanks,

Rodrigo