AstroCat58840 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Hello fellow users, I have a Dell Vostro 220s (Slim Tower) with an Intel 32-bit Pentium with 3 GB of memory. Hard drive is a 160 GB with Mac OS X 10.9.1 and a 500 GB hard drive used for expansion with this configuration. I want to use the 500 GB hard drive for installing a Linux distro (elementary OS), partitioning only 100 GB, which leads to "dual-booting", but when I installed it on the hard drive, and yes, I double checked I didn't format the Mac partition, and rebooted it, I got a boot0 error. My bootloader is Chameleon. When I tried a bootloader from a CD, it couldn't detect ANY partitions in the computer. To to sum it up, how to fix? And if it's even possible to recover my info on the Mac partition, how to properly dual boot Linux and Mac? Thanks, LZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1111 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 boot with the usb (Chameleon Installer) on the Mavericks Installation go to disk utility and clic to your partition drive you have Installe . and clic Unmount see this picture Now quit the disk Utility and open the terminal Utility and type this dd if=/usr/standalone/i386/boot1h of=/dev/disk0s2 quit the terminal and quit the Installation , reboot to your HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroCat58840 Posted February 13, 2014 Author Share Posted February 13, 2014 boot with the usb (Chameleon Installer) on the Mavericks Installation go to disk utility and clic to your partition drive you have Installe . and clic Unmount see this picture Now quit the disk Utility and open the terminal Utility and type this dd if=/usr/standalone/i386/boot1h of=/dev/disk0s2 quit the terminal and quit the Installation , reboot to your HDD When I booted the USB bootloader, when I tried to find the partition, it cannot find "mach-kernel", that's why it doesn't show up on the bootloader. If the kernel is indeed gone, there is a chance the partition might be damaged, and to put it in English, screwed. You sure this method will work, based on the new info I gave? (Sorry, should have mentioned it earlier) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris1111 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Cant find mach_kernel and boot0 error is different try to boot with the usb to your installation drive and type the flag GraphicsEnabler=No -v -x if its work, reinstall the latest chameleon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroCat58840 Posted February 13, 2014 Author Share Posted February 13, 2014 Cant find mach_kernel and boot0 error is different try to boot with the usb to your installation drive and type the flag GraphicsEnabler=No -v -x if its work, reinstall the latest chameleon Thanks for your help, but there is NOTHING in the partition. It somehow got wiped. Reinstalling Mavericks now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpha.delta Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 You need install Linux with biosboot partition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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