activa Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 I installed 10.5.7 on a Dell Mini 9 for my daughter and it worked great for a couple years. A few days ago while she was transferring some files the system crashed. So it was giving the error: boot0: MBR boot0: Done boot1: Error I figured somehow the bootloader got screwed up so I've tried reinstalling it using a USB drive. The bootefi script has four options: EFI, or Darwin X86, and MBR or GUID. I've tried all the methods, and using the EFI/GUID method, I can at least get to the Mac startup screen (gray apple, spinning wheel) but I can't get it past that. Am I using the right bootloader? How do I figure out what installation options are right? Any ideas welcomed! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/262127-help-efi-got-fried-how-to-reinstall/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
TNSQUARE Posted July 20, 2011 Share Posted July 20, 2011 I installed 10.5.7 on a Dell Mini 9 for my daughter and it worked great for a couple years. A few days ago while she was transferring some files the system crashed. So it was giving the error: boot0: MBR boot0: Done boot1: Error I figured somehow the bootloader got screwed up so I've tried reinstalling it using a USB drive. The bootefi script has four options: EFI, or Darwin X86, and MBR or GUID. I've tried all the methods, and using the EFI/GUID method, I can at least get to the Mac startup screen (gray apple, spinning wheel) but I can't get it past that. Am I using the right bootloader? How do I figure out what installation options are right? Any ideas welcomed! Boot using the GUID option with verbose mode (-v) and take a photo of the messages on screen (then post the photo here) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/262127-help-efi-got-fried-how-to-reinstall/#findComment-1717822 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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