eLMafUDd Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I have Jas 10.4.8 AMD.Intel.SSE2.SSE3 and when I format my hdd using disk utility from the install disk, it makes it a GUID partition (EFI I think) and not MBR. So I cannot boot from this drive, and just get a blinking cursor. I have tried formatting the drive beforehand using Macdrive and that made it Non-EFI, then installing onto it and I get "Reboot and select proper boot device" message. When chain booting I get Chain booting error. Any Suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41668-jas-1048-making-my-harddrive-efi/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 You need to change it in Disk Utility. In this screenshot, see the 'Options...' button? Click that. Then you get this options screen. Select 'Master Boot Record'. Then create your partitions and install. Viola! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41668-jas-1048-making-my-harddrive-efi/#findComment-298097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eLMafUDd Posted February 9, 2007 Author Share Posted February 9, 2007 Thanks so much for the help, and fast reply I'll let you know how it goes. It's just that other releases didn't require this, and it was just set to MBR by default. Hmm, there is no Options button in disk utility. Strange. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41668-jas-1048-making-my-harddrive-efi/#findComment-298129 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rational Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Hi Munky, Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I'm not finding these options in my disk utility for some reason. Under the 'Partition' tab, there is no 'Options' button for me.... no idea why. Does anyone know? I think that if I can get the drive set to primary, active, that all will be well. I may try wiping the HD with Partition Magic and creating a new fat32 active primary partition then changing it to Mac OS Journaled in the Mac disk utility and reinstalling yet again and hoping this might make it work.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41668-jas-1048-making-my-harddrive-efi/#findComment-298153 Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Are you sure you have the *drive* itself selected, over on the left of the window? You have to select the drive, not any partition on the drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41668-jas-1048-making-my-harddrive-efi/#findComment-298198 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rational Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Hi! Great quick reply. Yes, I'm sure. I tried every option, tab and button in the disk util with no luck. In another post someone told me that the Disk Utility on the 10.4.8 Jas DVD I'm using is corrupt and I have to fix it with a "PPE Patch"???? I'm not finding that, but would love to have someone point me in the right direction. I was able to progress a bit and got the d0 error, I knew I was one step closer. I got to this point by going into the disk utility and deleting some free space at the front of the drive. But it turned out that my partition was still not active. Which I knew was the real problem. I tried the fdisk thing I'd read about elsewhere but got the reply that the permissions were not allowing it and it needed to reattempt on next reboot. This didn't take effect on next reboot, so no benefit there. I hadn't realized I coulda tried the 'sudo' in front to upgrade the permissions. This might've worked. Anyway, I did finally get past this roadblock with this method: How I fixed it: 1. Low level formatted the HD to remove everything. 2. Used Partition Magic to create a new partition (unformatted). 3. Made it active. 4. Started the OSX boot installer but went into Disk Utility and formatted the partition with "Mac OS Journaled" 5. Installed OSX with the JAS installer and it finally could see the partition and boot up. SO I've gotten this far so far. My next problem is that I just have the grey apple screen with the frozen circular progress indicator.... next hurdle to tackle. Anyone point me in the right direction? I'll start my thread searches now I guess in the meantime. Thought this might help you all. Rational. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41668-jas-1048-making-my-harddrive-efi/#findComment-298233 Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Check the screenshot I attached. You should be clicking on the DRIVE, not a PARTITION on the drive. For example, I have selected "111.8 GB FUJITSH MHW2..." as opposed to "Macintosh HD" or "Vista HD". You should then click "Partition" and there should be an "Options" button at the bottom of the screen. I have highlighted its position in the screenshot. BTW, your partition cannot be "made" an EFI partition. EFI is the Extensible Firmware Interface, which is the replacement for a PC's BIOS on a real Mac computer. EFI and the GUID Partition Table are often seen together (real Macs), but you are not required to have EFI to read a GUID-type partition. In order to boot, EFI must have a GUID-type partition. However, GUID-type partitions can be read in Windows Vista, as well as (I think...) several Linux distros and possibly Windows Server 2003. Don't quote me on the last two, I'm not entirely sure. Well, that was a long ramble. For your purposes, you do want the MBR partitioning scheme on your disk, in order to boot with your BIOS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41668-jas-1048-making-my-harddrive-efi/#findComment-298415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 thanks erbic - thats what i was trying to get across Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41668-jas-1048-making-my-harddrive-efi/#findComment-298418 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rational Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Hi Guys, Actually I'm now all set. I was able to get everything working and am now on the mac desktop. But I did want to take a second and clarify things for the next guy that should come thru reading for the same problem. Unfortunately, there is no 'options' button showing up for me at all. And yes, I am clicking on the drive > then 'Partition' (because "Partition" only shows up when clicking on the drive and not the partition). I'm not sure why this would be except another high posting forum user told me that the Disk Utility within this Jas 10.4.8 AMD/Intel .iso is bad. Maybe he's right... I'll have the Intel only .iso shortly and will post if that allows the 'Options' button to show up. Please see the attached screenshot showing the lack of the options button. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41668-jas-1048-making-my-harddrive-efi/#findComment-298831 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eLMafUDd Posted February 11, 2007 Author Share Posted February 11, 2007 That is exactly the same as what mine is like. I will try the method posted with partition magic and post the results. I know if can't be "made" EFI, but it formats to a GUID partition table as if my machine had EFI instead of BIOS. Only Vista, server and XP 64bit of windows can read/write GUID. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41668-jas-1048-making-my-harddrive-efi/#findComment-299603 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gica Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Hey Munky which Jas are you using,I'm tyring to install using JasOS10.4.8 AMD Intel SSE2 SSE3 BetaV2,and the only thing that opens up the option tab is if I click on the CD/DVD player,than the option tab appears,if I use the drives it hides that tab,also the enable journaling is greyed out.So which version are you using and how did you format the hard disc.Mine is a Maxtor 200gb and I used the maxtor cd and erased everything than I used the Disk Utilities and split,partitioned and erased with mac extended journel enabled.Trying to install with all the customized options off except intel kext.I tried to install before to a Fat32 primary partition done in Partition Magic but it installed and rebooted to the blinking curser on black screen. Jas intel only 10.4.8 won't even get me this far it's just stops and tells me Error Couldn't read XML properly list for multikext archive entry 137.Don't know why. Presently am trying to download the one with PPF1.WOW I actually got passed the grey Apple screen after install so diabling the customized options with the exeption of Intel did the trick. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41668-jas-1048-making-my-harddrive-efi/#findComment-299701 Share on other sites More sharing options...
coucou Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 cool, what do u mean by : "with the exeption of Intel did the trick" you change something in you bios ? the problem is that there's too many install disk ... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41668-jas-1048-making-my-harddrive-efi/#findComment-299766 Share on other sites More sharing options...
boha Posted February 17, 2007 Share Posted February 17, 2007 (edited) Apparently, some of the DVDs have older ("bad") versions of Disk Utility on them. I have a 10.4.8 JaS DVD (I wish I remembered which one), and for me, this is the case. I compared the "About Disk Utility" (under the application menu) dialogs between booting from the DVD and a . . . erm . . . "conventionally installed" 10.4.8 12" Powerbook 1.33. My up-to-date Powerbook has Disk Utility version 10.5.6 (198.12). My JaS 10.4.8 installer DVD has Disk Utility version 10.5.4 (198.9). I don't know why this is, but I'm going to try partitioning with GParted to write the partition table MBR-style, as doing so is not an option from my DVD. (DLing a new DVD . . . yeah, that would be the RIGHT thing to do, right? ) EDIT: Duh. GParted won't let me write HFS+ partitions. OK, looks like I'm gonna grab a fresh distro and try, try again. Edited February 17, 2007 by boha Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41668-jas-1048-making-my-harddrive-efi/#findComment-305191 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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