Cant boot without OS X DVD

[Codythatsme]

Hi,

 

I installed iDeneb 10.5.6 and mostly works great, but whenever I need to boot into OS X I need to boot from the iDeneb DVD and type "disk0s2" as a boot command, that command makes it boot from the second partition. I'm using Charmeleon boot loader and can boot Windows fine from that, but when I try with OS X it says errors encounted pausing in 5 seconds, then boots into OS X but is stuck on the picture of the Apple. How can I fix it?

 

Thanks.

[valv]

Hi,

 

I installed iDeneb 10.5.6 and mostly works great, but whenever I need to boot into OS X I need to boot from the iDeneb DVD and type "disk0s2" as a boot command, that command makes it boot from the second partition. I'm using Charmeleon boot loader and can boot Windows fine from that, but when I try with OS X it says errors encounted pausing in 5 seconds, then boots into OS X but is stuck on the picture of the Apple. How can I fix it?

 

Thanks.

try booting into osx with this argument: -v

this is only to verbose, maybe u can then search for displayed errors on the forum

[Codythatsme]

try booting into osx with this argument: -v

this is only to verbose, maybe u can then search for displayed errors on the forum

 

Thanks for the quick reply, my question is how do I do that with Charmeleon installed?

 

Thanks.

[neer2005]

if you have vista or win7 (it might work with xp im not too sure) boot up from the windows installtion CD and on bottom click fix my computer then when theres a menu of options on fixing your computer click command promt and type "diskpart" then wait for it to load into diskpart after that type "list disk" then which ever disk you are using for mac (for me its disk0 as i have vista and osx on same HDD) now type "select disk0" or what ever number it is then type "list partition" now make sure which partition is the one with mac on it then type "select partition0) or what ever number your mac is on then after it selects that partition type "active" and it should mark that partition ask active then when you reboot mac should boot fine also this can be done by booting up into vista or 7 itself just click run then type cmd and continue from the top hope this helps

[Anindya]

hi mate have your problem solved yet??

[Beerkex'd]

Thanks for the quick reply, my question is how do I do that with Charmeleon installed?

 

Type it in the same place where you type "disk0s2"..

[muchlife]

if you have an older version of chameleon installed, you might see "press F8 to enter options" thats when you would choose your drive and type in -v to enable verbose mode to look which errors it gets stuck on

 

 

if you have a newer or GUI chameleon version, where you see the graphical icons of drives to choose from, just start typing -v as soon as you see the graphic interface show up, before you choose which drive to boot