[SOLVED] My computer doesn't boot without the boot cd

[s.sirio]

Dear all,

 

 

I have to ask your kind help for one other matter. I have clearly a problem with the boot loader because previously at booting was showing me the HFS+ Partition Error. I have made some research and used the FDISK improperly so now if I boot without the installation DVD it appears only a blank cursor on the top left corner of the screen the pc crashes and restart to crash again. If I boot with the dvd it works normally.

I read among other posts one which points in the direction that I must have only for partition to have a boot loader to work (if I got it correctly) but at the moment I have 4 + the partition that Leopard creates for a total of 5.

I have attached a print out of some commands that might help (the XXXXXX replace my name).

Name of partition:

 

VISTA: Blanch one to host VISTA if necessary after fixing everything else

NEPTUNE: Kalyway 10.5.2. Just a test partition used to install retail. Can be deleted if I realize how not to mess all the rest.

SATURN: Partition for data. At the moment there are some few files but should host all my datas

JUPITER: Main partition with Leopard 10.5.8

 

My problem is: what I need to do to have the Jupiter (Leo retail) partition working when I start the computer and a potential VISTA partition to install VISTA after that everything is working?

 

Many thanks for your kind help

Looking forward to hearing from you

[s.sirio]

I have solved my problem thanks to the help of Giorgio Multi in the Italian forum. In few words he pointed out that I should have backup the Leopard partition (I used Carbon Copy Cloner), install the backed up to the VISTA partition and then get rid off the JUPITER partition. I got rid off the JUPITER merging it with the SATURN using the follow commands

 

 

Sudo -s

password

mergePartitions "Journaled HFS+" New disk0s4 disk0s5

 

 

where disk0s4 is SATURN and disk0s5 was JUPITER

 

then I flagged the VISTA partition as active (renamed to SUN) using FDISK and installed the cameleon Boot loader.

 

Now my system works perfectly.

 

Hope this little post can help anyone facing such a problem

 

take care