(null) Posted August 10, 2009 Share Posted August 10, 2009 I am trying to install iPC 10.5.6 on my dell vostro 200. I previously installed and ran iDeneb successfully, but uninstalled it because of the amount of problems i had and wanted to try another flavor. The install runs fine and appears to be successful, but whenever i try to boot into my new iPC, i get the error boot0: MBR boot0: Done boot1: Error I have to Ctrl+Alt+Delete to restart. I'm not an expert on low-level programming, but it sounds like a corrupt MBR. I'm installing it on a USB hard drive, so i don't know if that could have something to do with it. The ISO md5 checked out, and i realize it could be a corrupt burn, but i wanted to try you all before reburning my dvd. Since i can't even get into the OS, i didn't think you would need any specs, but if you do ask. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179036-mbr-problem-with-ipc/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oatman Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 This isn't just with iPC... you can get this with the vanilla kernal as well... Your problem is that you have an MBR drive and you just installed OSX on your master drive, aka first sata drive plugged into your motherboard. You need to install OSX on your slave drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179036-mbr-problem-with-ipc/#findComment-1242145 Share on other sites More sharing options...
srs5694 Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 I don't believe Oatman is correct. It's also probably not a corrupt MBR. The messages are from the boot loader, which is a program that's launched by the computer's BIOS to help boot the OS. All OSes require boot loaders of one sort or another, but you usually don't even know they're there when you boot Windows, since the standard Windows boot loader doesn't print any messages unless something goes wrong. In this case, the boot loader is reporting that its first stage ("boot0") detected an MBR configuration and completed successfully, but that the second stage ("boot1") is having problems. The second stage resides in the boot sector of the boot partition. I don't know enough about OSx86 boot loaders (Chameleon, PC-EFI, etc.) to say what precisely might be going wrong. Perhaps the second-stage boot loader can't find the third-stage boot loader (which is often a file called /boot in the boot partition), or maybe there's something else going wrong. Sorry I can't point you to a ready-made solution, but I hope I can at least nudge you in the right direction. I can say with certainty that Oatman is wrong because I've got a system that has just one physical hard disk, and it boots fine from an MBR-only configuration. (At least, it did until recently; I converted to a hybrid MBR/GPT configuration to help me test some partitioning software I've written.) In fact, all laptops that boot from their internal drives do so from the first physical disk, and lots of people run OSx86 that way. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179036-mbr-problem-with-ipc/#findComment-1242641 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tienneke Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Probably the safest thing is, as mentioned above, to reinstall using GUID partitioning (GPT if you want, same thing). If you follow one of the tons of dual boot tutorials on the forum, you'll be able to get it up and running in no time (if you want dual boot. Otherwise just use GPT ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179036-mbr-problem-with-ipc/#findComment-1242681 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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