RDTG Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 I have a bit of a problem . I have Leopard 10.5.7 fully working on my Dell Vostro A860 Notebook. Except for one problem, to boot it up, I have to have my Kalaway DVD in my drive. Well, right now, I am at my friend's house and I left my Kalaway DVD at home. I won't be able to get my DVD for a few days. And my friend's laptop only has CD burner, and I have a few 1 & 2 GB flash drives. I am just wondering, if there is any way to make a simple OSX bootloader (just like the one on the OSX86 DVDs) for a CD or flash drive in Windows XP/Vista (my friends notebook only runs Windows.). Am I going to have to aquire another Kalway copy from the internet? Right now, I am desperate to boot up my notebook, and I only have Leopard installed on it. For some reason, when I updated to 10.5.7 it messed up my bootloader to where it tries to boot from my 2nd partition first. I have 2 partitions: MegaDrive and SuperDrive. MegaDrive has my Leopard installation on it. SuperDrive is just some empty folders. I don't know why, but it always tries to boot from SuperDrive, and says "Error loading operating system". If anyone knows a way I can get into Leopard on my laptop with a CD or FlashDrive (without having to download another copy of Leopard hopefully ); I would REALLY REALLY appreciate it. Also, if anyone can help me fix this AFTER I get booted, I would REALLY appreciate that too. Someone help T_T Thanks, -- Julian/Rurik/RDTG -- EDIT: I found a Darwin bootloader CD for people who want to boot an original leopard disc. I finally got into the menu where I select either SuperDrive or MegaDrive (the menu I get if I let my Kalaway disc count down), but for some reason, I can only boot into safe mode. if I try booting without options, it begins to boot with the apple logo, but after a while it just hangs and stops spinning (sometimes, a cursor appears that I can move, but it disappears after a minute). When I boot using the Kalaway disc, it doesn't hang. Can someone help me set it to boot MegaDrive? Superdrive = disk0s1 MegaDrive = disk0s5 I am really stumped here. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179950-boot-partition-problem-post-installation/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDTG Posted August 15, 2009 Author Share Posted August 15, 2009 EDIT: I got it working!! I can now boot without a disc in my drive. I installed Chameleon onto SuperDrive. So now it boots into Chameleon's boot menu. BUT!!! I still need help. I want to set MegaDrive (disk0s5) as my boot partition. Because I want to format SuperDrive (disk0s1). Any suggestions? please? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/179950-boot-partition-problem-post-installation/#findComment-1226916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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