supergnu Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Hi! I had a fully working OS X 10.5.6 and had to use my harddisk for some other purpose. therefore i created with Disk utility a dmg backup of my os x partition. to restore it, i started up with the Kalyway 10.5.2 install DVD and started the disk utility there. I partitioned the Disk from scratch with three partitions: Journaled - Journaled - FAT (I think by doing so, it created a GPT-MBR hybrid) - then i used disk utility to write back my dmg backup to the first partition. however - it's not booting now. Probably because there is no bootcode in the bootsector of the disk? So - how can I make my backup boot? I have a working Vista installation on a second disk Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sim888 Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 hi supergnu... By no means am i an expert, and i was mostly flyin by the seat of my pantst...but before i upped to 10.5.6 (from 10.5.4 - kalyway, P35-DS3P) i wanted a working bootable clone just in case...here's roughly what i did, and i hope i'm not forgetting anything - Ill refer to HDone as orig, and HDoneBU as the backup drive, both are 500GB seagates... I enabled root, then logged into root -this may or may not be needed, i dont know used disk utility to partition HDoneBU (1 partition) and in options selected guid used rsyncx and the settings here: http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/f181/25.htm Now, when the cloning of 10.5.4 HDone was done, i used DSDT Patcher GUI to patch HDoneBU - you may not need to do this, i mightn't have either? lol then used UInstaller to apply pc_efi v9 chameleon and efi string for graphics card to HDoneBU - this is what makes it bootable i guess booted from HDoneBU with -v -f for the first time, then rebooted normally - i then updated to 10.5.6 and all's been well so far, will use the same method minus the dsdt path, to cloe my now working 10.5.6 drive.. anyways, give it a go, no harm could be done i guess, as i used a separate drive for backup.. if anyone has input on an easier way though, i'm all ears too good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supergnu Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 Hello and thanks for the reply The problem is, that I already have the backup! it was done using Disk Utility (not from the started OS, but from a booted installation disk) by creating a dmg Image of the OS partition. The harddisk is empty now - so no way to create a new backup. Now i need to get this backup working again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzywasaduck2 Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 It's very useful in these situations to have another install of leopard - a lot of people use kalyway, I use leo4all - they're used because they're easy to install I had your very same problem the other day. This is how I fixed it.... You're right, when you restore from an image, the boot part disapears I put it back on using the chameleon installer (it does EFI and the boot part) I booted up using my leo4all install from another HD then installed chameleon onto the restored HD Then you can boot into the restored HD Sorry, if this doesn't help - if you don't have another drive to use as a "Help me" install of leopard then this won't help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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