demonio Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 I dont know what more I can do. Four days of browsing the forum - when somebody has booting problem I can find no answer - i mean nearly - to solving the problem of booting WITHOUT DVD. I simply dont know what to try next. I even installed the OSX on two disks for experiments. Bless, GTP, fdisk, Windows 98 floppy, fdisk /mbr - what? Two times JaS 10.4.8 with semtex on D975XBX, dual pentium D940 - SATA 120, 160, and additional SATA of 250 GB. everything works but the booting sequence. Sometimes it starts one, sometimes another OSX. (I need only one OSX, the other is for experiments) The partitions are both active. This is the output of my second OSX HD: xys-computer:~ xy$ sudo gpt show /dev/disk2 Password: start size index contents 0 1 MBR 1 62 63 31457280 1 MBR part 175 31457343 6 31457349 202984299 2 MBR part 175 This is how the DiskUtility formats the disk when installing osx86. But: when i partitioned this disk from Mac OS, previously i got: start size index contents 0 1 PMBR 1 1 Pri GPT header 2 32 Pri GPT table 34 6 40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B 409640 20709376 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC 21119016 262144 21381160 125566976 3 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC 146948136 262144 147210280 165109344 4 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC 312319624 262151 312581775 32 Sec GPT table 312581807 1 Sec GPT header I left it this way to install OSX without partitioning, just went next to installation. But i cannot start it even with the DVD inserted. The darwin bootloader from DVD says it cannot find mac.boot.plist or something. And i do not have the boot1h file to bless or dd from. Nowhere. Am I missing something? Can somebody take a look on http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsour...winInstaller-1/ maybe is this the right place to look for something? If im able to put it on CD/DVD, then it must work on Hard disk too..what is going on? Heeeeeeeeeeelp.....somebody...Thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 My box is open...it starts with the disc that is pluged in, one disc/one clear instalation works better. Discs for testing things is firewire connected and can be started by target disc mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 i guess you have something wrong you can't have 2 or more active partitions i advice you to check out your partition table, and install a good boot loader: grub or acronis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac.nub Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 Hi, Firstly having it installed on two hard drives probably doesn't improve matters with the bootloader! If you want to use both for Mac OS X install one and simply format the other in HFS+ Journalised format so you can store files on it. As for your problem, am I right in thinking that you have Installed it, it boots once then doesn't work again? If so you may well need to install the USB Drivers for 10.4.8, as if you don't after the first boot it tends to kill your PC! (Or at least does on mine) You can download it here - but let me know when you have so I can delete it from my server please. Cheers, ~mac.nub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonio Posted April 22, 2007 Author Share Posted April 22, 2007 Thanks to all for answering. Everything works fine except booting from HD. My another HD with OSX86 on it is plugged off and is there to be prepared to boot after I figure out (with Your help ) how to boot without DVD inserted, So its a simply backup and we can forget it. Related to my setup, the CI/QE and extended desktop work fine, THX to natit. The problem with booting from HD remains unsolved for me. I will try maybe with grub. I tried last week with XOSL boot loader, no positive results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonio Posted April 23, 2007 Author Share Posted April 23, 2007 Partition inspector from rEFIt package says: *** Report for internal hard disk *** Current GPT partition table: No GPT partition table present! Current MBR partition table: # A Start LBA End LBA Type 1 * 1 312581807 af Mac OS X HFS+ MBR contents: Boot Code: None Partition at LBA 1: Boot Code: None File System: HFS Extended (HFS+) Listed in MBR as partition 1, type af Mac OS X HFS+, active No Boot code? no boot loader? I tried to start with BootMagic--sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonio Posted April 24, 2007 Author Share Posted April 24, 2007 Any new suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueAvenue Posted April 24, 2007 Share Posted April 24, 2007 Install Grub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonio Posted April 26, 2007 Author Share Posted April 26, 2007 I did that already. Chainload +1 and stuff - boot from hd(0,0) and (0,1) and (0,n) - only a cursor blinking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonio Posted April 27, 2007 Author Share Posted April 27, 2007 forget about it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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