jarobata Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 I was on OSX when I left for class, I came back and the screen saver was frozen and there was an error saying "This machine needs to be rebooted, hold down the power button for a few seconds blah blah blah". I restarted and now OSX won't boot, Darwin never loads. I can load windows and OSX using SuperGrub by booting the OSX partition and windows partitions manually but if I start the computer and let it go on it's own, it never loads anything, the flashing underscore just stays forever, i.e. the bootloader isn't loading. What can I do to fix this? Gparted lists the OSX partition as being the boot partition and windows lists the OSX partition as being active. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66025-when-i-came-home-error-and-now-mbr-doesnt-load/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarobata Posted October 10, 2007 Author Share Posted October 10, 2007 If i choose to boot the master boot record with supergrub, what I assume is Darwin loads and lets me pick between OSX and XP but this is the only way I can do this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66025-when-i-came-home-error-and-now-mbr-doesnt-load/#findComment-468041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarobata Posted October 11, 2007 Author Share Posted October 11, 2007 If i choose to boot the master boot record with supergrub, what I assume is Darwin loads and lets me pick between OSX and XP but this is the only way I can do this. It did it again, when I woke up this morning there was a message saying I needed to reboot my computer. I still can't get the MBR to load on it's own. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66025-when-i-came-home-error-and-now-mbr-doesnt-load/#findComment-468635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proteo Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 Do you have installed QuickSilver by any chance? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66025-when-i-came-home-error-and-now-mbr-doesnt-load/#findComment-468655 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarobata Posted October 11, 2007 Author Share Posted October 11, 2007 Do you have installed QuickSilver by any chance? I don't believe so. I do have USB Overdrive installed which I haven't paid for yet. I also installed Seashore and my HP printer drivers since installation. I tried to install Java but I couldn't get it to work. Those are all the things I can remember installing since I installed OSX. The wierd thing is this never used to happen (The error message) and the MBR still works so I don't understand what is happening to prevent it from loading. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66025-when-i-came-home-error-and-now-mbr-doesnt-load/#findComment-468658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bibendum Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 if you boot with -v, what errors do you get? Patrick Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66025-when-i-came-home-error-and-now-mbr-doesnt-load/#findComment-468731 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarobata Posted October 11, 2007 Author Share Posted October 11, 2007 if you boot with -v, what errors do you get? Patrick I have not. How would I go about that? I would search but this forum won't let me search for -v. I think i go to something like advanced boot options when I use supergrub to boot the mbr? I don't understand how the MBR can be 100% ok since it loads using supergrub but it doesn't load during normal startup. What's bypassing the MBR? Even if I fix that, why on earth would my computer freeze up with an error just from sitting with nobody working on it. That doesn't make any sense. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66025-when-i-came-home-error-and-now-mbr-doesnt-load/#findComment-468748 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarobata Posted October 11, 2007 Author Share Posted October 11, 2007 Alright, by switching my SATA operation mode to AHCI the bootloader is coming up again. I don't know if this will stop the errors but I'll post up if it shows up again. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/66025-when-i-came-home-error-and-now-mbr-doesnt-load/#findComment-468880 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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