watou Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Hello all, I finally got around to upgrading my stella v3 / EP45UD3P system from 10.6.7 to 10.6.8, but first cloned the 10.6.7 disk (WD10EADS SATA 1TB) to a new WD10EARS SATA 1TB, applied the 10.6.8 combo update, and re-installed the bootloader on it, but no matter what I get: boot0: GPT boot0: test boot0: test boot0: error when trying to boot off the new disk. However, if I boot off the 10.6.7 disk that's still attached, I can press any key and choose the 10.6.8 disk and it boots fine. I re-ran stell's v3 installer to put the bootloader in place on the cloned/upgraded disk. I have also performed the Chameleon manual install fdisk, dd and cp steps to make sure the boot0, boot1h and boot files were applied properly. I also switched the SATA wires around to make the 10.6.8 disk appear where the 10.6.7 was, to no avail. While I can get to and run 10.6.8 via the Chameleon on the old 10.6.7 disk, I am dependent on the old 10.6.7 disk remaining in the system in order to boot the 10.6.8 disk, which is much less than ideal. Any thoughts or guidance? Thanks! watou [Edited to improve clarity.] Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/275787-chameleon-boot0-error-on-cloned-1tb-disk/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodguess Posted February 12, 2012 Share Posted February 12, 2012 Never had that problem. Did you try CCC for cloning and the latest Chimera for installing the bootloader on your cloned drive? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/275787-chameleon-boot0-error-on-cloned-1tb-disk/#findComment-1795641 Share on other sites More sharing options...
watou Posted February 12, 2012 Author Share Posted February 12, 2012 Thanks for replying! I used CCC to clone the 10.6.7 disk, and saw at the end of the log that the clone was "blessed." Using the bootloader on the original disk, I chose the clone from the menu and it booted, I installed the 10.6.8 combo update 1.1, copied over the AppleHDA.kext from the 10.6.7, ran the kext utility, and disabled sleep in System Preferences (still need to research that). Everything but booting off the cloned/updated disk seems to work. But I was wary of using a different version of Chameleon than the one included in stell's v3 installer. What is Chimera? I will go search for that. Again, thanks. EDIT: Is there any reason to be nervous about replacing just the bootloader to see if it fixes the problem? I don't want to lose access to this new 10.6.8 disk! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/275787-chameleon-boot0-error-on-cloned-1tb-disk/#findComment-1795648 Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodguess Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 The bootloader is installed in the EFI partition on your disk and should not affect the HFS+ partition at all. Tonymacx86 hosts the latest Chimera in his download area. Did I get you right, the cloned 10.6.7 disk did boot without issues? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/275787-chameleon-boot0-error-on-cloned-1tb-disk/#findComment-1795732 Share on other sites More sharing options...
watou Posted February 13, 2012 Author Share Posted February 13, 2012 Sorry, the cloned disk has never booted without an assist from the original 10.6.7 disk. I will now try the Chimera 1.7.0 standalone install to the new disk to see if that works. Crossing my fingers.... The Chimera 1.7.0 standalone install had no effect on the problem. Booting the new/cloned/10.6.8 disk directly still yields: boot0: GPT boot0: test boot0: test boot0: error The old and new disks are exactly the same 1TB size, the old one being a Western Digital WD10EADS and the new one being a Western Digital WD10EARS. I will perform a permissions check/fix with Disk Utility to see if that helps. Thanks for your help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/275787-chameleon-boot0-error-on-cloned-1tb-disk/#findComment-1795781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxic Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Try using the latest Chameleon 2.1 installer (r 1800 and something). When installing, make sure you target the correct HDD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/275787-chameleon-boot0-error-on-cloned-1tb-disk/#findComment-1795788 Share on other sites More sharing options...
watou Posted February 13, 2012 Author Share Posted February 13, 2012 I found a very interesting issue with Chameleon which might be the whole story: http://forge.voodooprojects.org/p/chameleon/issues/129/ The WD10EARS disk seems to have some basic difference in geometry from the WD10EADS disk, but is presented as identical at the OS level. So I will follow issue 129 and report back here when there is something I can try. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/275787-chameleon-boot0-error-on-cloned-1tb-disk/#findComment-1795799 Share on other sites More sharing options...
watou Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 I was unable to write boot1h to the OS partition under either 10.6.7 or 10.6.8, but succeeded when booting an Ubuntu 11.04 desktop CD. The details are at the issue # 129 link above. I think there is either a bug in OS X when trying to raw write to "Advanced Format" disks, or Apple has put in some intentional mechanism to prevent the writing from happening. Either way, it worked from Linux. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/275787-chameleon-boot0-error-on-cloned-1tb-disk/#findComment-1796043 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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