olmirror Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 I've been running my OS X installation for months now, no crashes, smooth and fast... and of course Windows has to destroy it: Macdrive. Anyway, tried to fix the installation with all the available programs but never got to boot it again, stayed put before Darwin was supposed to appear, nothing but a blinking cursor winking at me. Reformated the drive and reinstalled, same thing, couldn't boot. For a second I was afraid that my hard drive had been destroyed. Went into windows, deleted the partition with Acronis, reformatted with the install disk and reinstalled. Got it back up and running, only thing is that now I need my DVD inserted in order to boot up, without the DVD my pc looks for the bootable device. This never happened to me before and as far as I know the partition is active. Anyone out there with any suggestions, as to how I can boot from my hard drive directly, without the DVD inserted? Or how to reinstall the Darwin bootloader? Thanks for your time... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60229-weirdest-thing/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gimpyviper Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Which DVD did you use to install? When I was first getting my Hackintoshes going I started with JaS 10.4.8 and I had the same problem, when I used uphuck's 10.4.9 1.3 I didn't. Shrug, I doubt it's JaS's DVD because tons of people on here use it and I'm sure the problem would be 100x more prevalent if it was because of his disc. But like I said, when I used JaS I had to leave the DVD in there to boot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60229-weirdest-thing/#findComment-428117 Share on other sites More sharing options...
olmirror Posted August 15, 2007 Author Share Posted August 15, 2007 I use Uphuck 1.3i, tried it before and didn't have any problems. Like I said this is new to me and I doubt it's the DVD. Thanks though.any one else out there with any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60229-weirdest-thing/#findComment-428219 Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi262 Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 i had this problem but i found that to fix it all you had to do was: boot from the dvd run disk utility in disk utility select your drive go to the partitions bit and reformat the entire drive as just 1 partition - it's important that its only one - as Mac os (journaled) (along those lines) then format it again in the first tab as mac os (journaled) then after a successful install, you should find that before boot, a message should come up saying something like loading darwin bootloader with on the line below a series of ascii characters displayed one after eachother to make it look like a spinning line hope this helps, if not, check in bios that your boot drive is at the top in the boot order list or press f10 during boot and select the drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60229-weirdest-thing/#findComment-428248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveywilks Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 If you can boot to to the system with the dvd in see what happens if you set the startup disk in system properties. worked for me once! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60229-weirdest-thing/#findComment-428266 Share on other sites More sharing options...
olmirror Posted August 16, 2007 Author Share Posted August 16, 2007 Thanks for the input. I tired selecting the bootdevice in startup disk. Still has to boot darwin from the DVD. This is for abhi262, this is what i did the first time around, it's one solid partition, also picked it as my first boot device in the bios. still the same story. How about installing darwin to the mbr, is this possible, like in windows? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60229-weirdest-thing/#findComment-428614 Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 which partition did you install your osx on? i know osx only works on the first 3 primary partitions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60229-weirdest-thing/#findComment-428618 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zizou Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 It means you have no bootloader, either set your OS X partition active (through fdisk in terminal from your OS X install DVD) OR apply the chain-0 method, which is described in the Guru Bar if I'm not mistaken. Good luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60229-weirdest-thing/#findComment-428726 Share on other sites More sharing options...
olmirror Posted August 16, 2007 Author Share Posted August 16, 2007 Pulling my hair out here, tried reformatting the disk in any which way possible, threw every harware tool against it, no errors. It's only one partition, HSF journaled, it's active,- is it broke? SMART status ok, again no errors, it just refuses to boot, blinking at me just before the bootloader is supposed to appear. How can I check if the bootsector is damaged? I assume that with a complete partition delete and reformat the drive should be good to go... Right? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60229-weirdest-thing/#findComment-428884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
olmirror Posted August 16, 2007 Author Share Posted August 16, 2007 Got it, zeroed the drive, apparently there were some leftovers from a hidden Darwin mbr in the bootsector. Regular formatting wouldn't hack. can't believe it took me two days to figure this out. The more I use OS X the more I'm starting to hate windows and the {censored} I have to put up with... Thanks for the help guys Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/60229-weirdest-thing/#findComment-428985 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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