Soündless Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 i have jas 10.4.8 on my computer, and i have to use a dvd to boot any OS, it used to just be osx86, but then i tried to set the partition to active using fdisk, and now it totally screwed up my system. i need a dvd to boot anything, and in startup disk, i dont see anything besides network startup. is there a way to fix this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37004-jas-1048-startup-disk-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auggie Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 What happens if you use boot CD to access fdisk and set the other partition to active, restoring it to how it was when it was only "half" broken? Might at least recover SOME of the funcationality... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37004-jas-1048-startup-disk-problem/#findComment-263128 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted December 27, 2006 Author Share Posted December 27, 2006 what would i do? i just erased my xp, so i will see if it fixes it when i re-install Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37004-jas-1048-startup-disk-problem/#findComment-263135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted December 27, 2006 Author Share Posted December 27, 2006 is there anything i can do in osx? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37004-jas-1048-startup-disk-problem/#findComment-263147 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auggie Posted December 27, 2006 Share Posted December 27, 2006 I'm not the expert to be helping you at all, but I'll at least think about it a bit. I'm sure others like RammJet will be able to help -- they could probably fix it in a second, but I'll think about it a bit for now... what is the setup of your HD (which partition of which disk (if you have more than one) is OS X)? Sorry I don't know more, but I'll try. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37004-jas-1048-startup-disk-problem/#findComment-263151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted December 27, 2006 Author Share Posted December 27, 2006 (call rammjet) i have 3 hard drives, 1 had linux, 1 had xp, and 1 has osx. now i just have osx (osx disk0s1) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37004-jas-1048-startup-disk-problem/#findComment-263155 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted December 28, 2006 Author Share Posted December 28, 2006 is it the MBr that is screwed? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37004-jas-1048-startup-disk-problem/#findComment-263159 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auggie Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Oooook, as I said, I'm seriously NO expert on this, but I am pretty sure I read JUST the other day that there were serious problems booting from three different disks. I had read that it was much better to boot from one HD with different partitions. Again, I say that not knowing anything about it, really. I'll look around later on tonight (when the boredom/not able to sleep hits and I need something to occupy my mind). Right now, I've got to eat. Make sure you check around the forum a bit, and also, I highly recommend looking around the IRC rooms to see if anyone can help you. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?aut...o=show&id=3 That's the link to the "chat" page for the forum, where you can find the IRC rooms and get real-time support from some more knowledgeable people. Note that those more knowledgable people are also a part of the forum a lot of the time... I'm just saying that between the two resources, you should find an expert pretty quickly! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37004-jas-1048-startup-disk-problem/#findComment-263161 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted December 28, 2006 Author Share Posted December 28, 2006 in bios, i can set the order of boot, and i can only put one hard drive on the boot order. i had only 2 pluged in for a while, and the problem was still there. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37004-jas-1048-startup-disk-problem/#findComment-263165 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted December 28, 2006 Author Share Posted December 28, 2006 i followed this guide to do it http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=22844 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37004-jas-1048-startup-disk-problem/#findComment-263166 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auggie Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Sorry man, I got nothin for ya... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37004-jas-1048-startup-disk-problem/#findComment-263339 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sailfish Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 Yikes, this thread scares me! Mac "sage" floundering with this issue... My current system is 3 drives with a different OS on each. One has two on it. I install the OS's on the drives with ONLY that drive on the system. At the end, I attach them all and use the Bios to choose the drive and with exception of the one with two OS's on it, they just boot to what's on them. The one that is split is Vista and Ubuntu in that order. That one boots to Grub and you again have to choose an OS. No problems with this at all. Your BIOS should see all of the drives that you attach to the motherboard. It isn't OS dependent. It is ROM dependent on the circuitry of the drive. IF it doesn't, I would attach each drive individually and look for it. If it still didn't, I would reformat those drives and look again or try to put an OS on them and then look. No drives would equal dead drive or serious main board problems. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37004-jas-1048-startup-disk-problem/#findComment-263884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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