xiaomei Posted May 31, 2009 Share Posted May 31, 2009 Hi By mistake, Ive installed Chameleon bootloader on my Imac with 10.5.7 (thought this will only unpack it somewhere, not replace original one). Right now system is not booting. I`ve tried to boot from installation disk to fix it by using disk utilities, but it can not repair loader. Is there any chance to fix it without reinstalling whole system and loosing all data? I`ve found some tutorials on google, but it seems that they`re not working for me. Thanks in advance for any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 Hi By mistake, Ive installed Chameleon bootloader on my Imac with 10.5.7 (thought this will only unpack it somewhere, not replace original one). Right now system is not booting. I`ve tried to boot from installation disk to fix it by using disk utilities, but it can not repair loader. Is there any chance to fix it without reinstalling whole system and loosing all data? I`ve found some tutorials on google, but it seems that they`re not working for me. Thanks in advance for any help. boot from the dvd and enter terminal type diskutil list find the disk number of the drive in question disk0 or disk1 next type fdisk -e /dev/disk then the number like disk0 or disk1 example fdisk -e /dev/disk0 next if you have partitioned your hard drive we need to know what partition OSX is on. 1,2,3,4,5,6 or whereever type this one you know flag partition number example if mine is one partition 1 i would type flag 1 if it asks you to say yes during the next few steps say yes type update write exit reboot and done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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