thegodfaza Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 I was recently messing around with my partition table. I used fdisk under linux. Before I made any changes I wrote down everything so I could revert back. My changes didn't do what I wanted so I reverted back but now I get a "Chain booting error" message when I try to boot into OS X. There was only one problem. When I typed everything back in I was missing one block at the end of my disk. It used to say my disk was 19458 blocks. Now it's 19457. I'm not sure if one block can make the difference between my partition being corrupted or not since it was the VERY last block on the partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67747-chain-booting-error/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegodfaza Posted October 26, 2007 Author Share Posted October 26, 2007 I guess it's on to recovery now. I tried various programs that let me read HFS+ and they all say the same thing. So can I recover the data on the drive or hopefully boot from it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67747-chain-booting-error/#findComment-481747 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegodfaza Posted October 26, 2007 Author Share Posted October 26, 2007 No one willing to help. Strangly no one ever replies to my questions about OS X86 on this site. Maybe the questions are to hard. Anyway I am downloading a 10.4.8 DVD and am going to try to use Disk Utility to fix my problem. If that fails there is always terminal. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67747-chain-booting-error/#findComment-482407 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPS Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Well I'm a Noob and seeing as 90% of osx86 people are really selfish and never reply to my topics or oyur's i'll help you! Chain0- you messed it up in fdisk do you have Gparted Live cd? if not download it now or find an option to set the OSX partition active or set it active through terminal (i hope you know how to do it) Do you have windows? I suggest Uphuck 10.4.9 or Jas 10.4.8 But really leopard is out now so, wait online and they'll pop up on illegal sites!! Maybe leopard is better at dealing with booting ?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67747-chain-booting-error/#findComment-482495 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactobacillus P Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Well I'm a Noob and seeing as 90% of osx86 people are really selfish and never reply to my topics or oyur's i'll help you! Chain0- you messed it up in fdisk do you have Gparted Live cd? if not download it now or find an option to set the OSX partition active or set it active through terminal (i hope you know how to do it) Do you have windows? I suggest Uphuck 10.4.9 or Jas 10.4.8 But really leopard is out now so, wait online and they'll pop up on illegal sites!! Maybe leopard is better at dealing with booting ?? I had this error too when messing around with the partition and Linux. It seems like the partition information on the drive gets screwed in such a way that Windows and Linux are able to function with it but Chain0 just gets confused the hell out of it. One way for me to repair it was do a fresh restore from an image I made of my OSX installation after I repartitioned my drive. The other way was to use Acronis Bootselector. By the way people here are far from selfish, it's just that a lot of the NOOB questions have been asked before and are in here somewhere. Just ask yourself if you would come onto this forum again and again to answer noob questions again and again when some of the answers are in here somewhere. AND it also could very well be that even the most knowledgeable OSX86'ers don't have all the answers. Ok, the Forum-search engine sucks but you can use Google to search the forums from the 'outside'. Keep up the attitude and you'll get no answers. There's other OSX/Hackintosh forums on the web actually, perhaps you could try there too! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67747-chain-booting-error/#findComment-482519 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegodfaza Posted October 26, 2007 Author Share Posted October 26, 2007 I did a search for Chain booting error and got nothing usefull. Anyway my image is done downloading so I'll burn and give that a try. Hopefully I'll get it done before 6:00 so I can download Leopard AMD. Do you have windows?Not to sound like an A$$ but did you look at post #2? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67747-chain-booting-error/#findComment-482556 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactobacillus P Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Vista isn't windows - it blows Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67747-chain-booting-error/#findComment-482702 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegodfaza Posted October 26, 2007 Author Share Posted October 26, 2007 I'm a gamer. I need it to play my games. Anyway I couldn't recover any data on the drive or even get it to mount under OS X. So I reformatted it. Now it's time to wait for leopard. T-23 Minutes. I also need to find someone to give me an invite to a certain torrent site that I will not name for fears of getting banned. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/67747-chain-booting-error/#findComment-482730 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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