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I've had iDeneb installed with all up dates, every working a ok for a week and out of nowhere I restart and get this message.

 

E8300

ASUS P5K-E

 

Running sata hdd's as IDE, yes they are still set in IDE.

SATA DVDRW

 

No configuration changes at all, all I did was restart the mac and I get this message.

 

ACTUALLY.

 

I have it install on a 320GB HDD

100GB for the osx partition and 200GB as spare in FAT32

I went into disk utility and formatted the 200GB as MAC journalled.

Then restarted and that happened. Could the boot sector have been installed on the 200GB partition?

 

Anyway I can restore the boot sector without installing everything again?

 

I've had iDeneb installed with all up dates, every working a ok for a week and out of nowhere I restart and get this message.

 

E8300

ASUS P5K-E

 

Running sata hdd's as IDE, yes they are still set in IDE.

SATA DVDRW

 

No configuration changes at all, all I did was restart the mac and I get this message.

 

ACTUALLY.

 

I have it install on a 320GB HDD

100GB for the osx partition and 200GB as spare in FAT32

I went into disk utility and formatted the 200GB as MAC journalled.

Then restarted and that happened. Could the boot sector have been installed on the 200GB partition?

 

Anyway I can restore the boot sector without installing everything again?

 

 

***UPDATE***

I've run Ubuntu off the CD and can see the contents on the HSF partition. the plst file is still in the library/pref/system configuration folder so I don't know what's going on.

 

the file is there!

***3RD UPDATE***

 

It seems I can get into MAC OS X if I use the boot loader on the CD.

 

So I wait till it asks me if I want to do anything, then leave it.

 

Then it goes into the chameleon / darwin load and instead of having the FIRST PARTITION HIGHLIGHT as it normally does, it has the SECOND partition, this was the partition I just formatted in Drive Utilities.

 

If I high the first mac os x partition it loads up fine. If I highlight the second I get the plist error.

 

It seems that mac os x is trying to boot from the 2nd partition instead of the 1st partition.

 

HOW CAN I FIX THIS?

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