MacGuy42 Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Hey, I installed iDeneb v1.3 onto my sata drive, and I can only make it boot when the install disc is inside the drive. When the disc is *inside* the drive, the disc bootloader apparently boots the hard drive install if I don't hit any key. When the disc is *not* inside the drive, the BIOS jumps to the next drive. If there's nothing else, it just says something like "no bootable disc". I've played with IDE vs AHCI modes, I've even tried legacy mode. I've tried leaving the chipset field blank or selecting it. I've tried installing chameleon myself using the chameleon installer (from within leopard). Nothing works. Any suggestions as to the possible issue? My hardware is as follows: Badaxe2 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda - SATA SATA DVD drive Thank you in advance for any help, this issue is very frustrating! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142254-leopard-wont-boot-without-dvd-in-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazzr Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 Hey, I'm sure i remember having this problem once, and i seem to recall having to boot into the OSX Install program, open a terminal window and run something which made the drive bootable, i can't for the life of me remember the command though. Sorry that's not much help, its a start though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142254-leopard-wont-boot-without-dvd-in-drive/#findComment-1009226 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacGuy42 Posted December 22, 2008 Author Share Posted December 22, 2008 Did it have something to do with setting some partition flag? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142254-leopard-wont-boot-without-dvd-in-drive/#findComment-1009289 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazzr Posted December 22, 2008 Share Posted December 22, 2008 I think so yes. I can only find my oldest build notes which dont seem to have anything on this issue. I tend to note down what i did to overcome issues for next time, but i cant find it for this Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142254-leopard-wont-boot-without-dvd-in-drive/#findComment-1009508 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixlNinja Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 This same problems is with me too... But I have a Kalyway 10.5.2 Installed on my SATA HDD with Inter Core2 Quad Q6600.. Everything went just fine.. Including Installation. But enabled the stupid 'Time Machine' to see the fun. and the real fun is happening now. The OS X won't boot without keeping my Installation DVD inside. If there is no DVD inside the drive, It will show a blinking cursor. If I keep Install DVD without hitting any Key, OS will boot normally. Enabling 'Time Machine' will not edit the boot flag I think. But something happened in background. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/142254-leopard-wont-boot-without-dvd-in-drive/#findComment-1063741 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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