FullMetal Posted May 24, 2006 Share Posted May 24, 2006 Here's my situation. The other day I decided to install Ubuntu 5.10 on my 30GB Hard Drive listed in my Sig. It installed fine and booted straight into Ubuntu, but all was not well! During the installatioin Ubuntu repartitioned my OSx86 drive and erased both my MBR and the partition that had Darwin on it and in their place installed Grub. I decided to setup Ubuntu and then try to setup a Grub dual-boot. Sadly I ran into a freaking ton of errors, one of which was my inability to go into super-user mode, and since I couldn't become root I couldn't edit grubs config file and I couldn't boot into OSX. I tried everything that I could with Linux (I even reinstalled it twice), but I came up empty every time. I eventually erased my linuc drive and erased my mbr. I'm currently booting using my osx install dvd, but it takes much longer to boot and its quite agrevating! I've tried to fix my problem, but I can't so I need help. Here's some info on my drive: Device Node: /dev/disk0 Device Identifier: disk0 Partition Type: FDisk_partition_scheme Bootable: Not bootable Media Type: Generic Protocol: ATA SMART Status: Not Supported Total Size: 149.1 GB Free Space: 0.0 B Read Only: No Ejectable: No OS 9 Drivers: No Low Level Format: Not Supported and here's what the diskutility says: Name : ST3160023A Type : Disk Disk Identifier : disk0 Media Name : ST3160023A Media Media Type : Generic Connection Bus : ATA Connection Type : Internal Connection ID : Device 0 Partition Type : FDisk_partition_scheme Device Tree : /PCI0@0/IDE0@1F,1/CHN0@0/@0:0 Writable : Yes Ejectable : No Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed : No Location : Internal Total Capacity : 149.1 GB (160,041,885,696 Bytes) S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported Disk Number : 0 Partition Number : 0 I'm in desperate need of help and sleep right now. Cheers, FullMetal Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/18197-frakked-mbr-no-darwin-bootloader-and-hd-is-non-bootable/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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