Quadstian Intellas Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 So, I have been at this for MONTHS with no success (imagine my frustration) due to the fact I have a Nvidia 680i SLI mb and Geforce 8500 GTS. Downloaded macnube's version of OSx86 v1 r5 to install on a brand new separate PATA drive. The installation itself took over two hours which is weird 'cause I'm running on 5GB of memory. Anyway, it got to the MACH REBOOT screen [which it didn't] so i rebooted myself. When i try to boot off the drive I get the ol' DISK BOOT FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISC, HIT ENTER. I hit enter and it boots to my SATA drive [Vista]. The weird thing is, I checked under MY COMPUTER and the PATA drive is showing up with an Apple symbol. Vista is recognizing it as a MacDrive--which I guess mean's that assuming I got a drive DOA is ruled out. I open the drive and all the mac files and applications are in there. I'm very limited in my technical proficiency, but anybody have any idea what's going on or if there's a solution? I'm just glad it's not a kernal panic! this time....Will I be able to boot? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74996-disk-boot-failure-insert-system-disc/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talek Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 What sort of boot management software are you using? Your mac drive may not be flagged properly, or maybe it's not set up properly for multi boot. If you need a boot manager, I'd use easy bcd in vista to set up the multi boot. If the drive isn't set up as a primary boot drive, you may need a disk manager utility like parted magic or acronis to manipulate the flags on the drive. Finally, darwin bootloader may just not be installed properly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74996-disk-boot-failure-insert-system-disc/#findComment-529692 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaMDaY Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 With Apple logo next to the hard drive, one would assume you have MacDrive installed. http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/74996-disk-boot-failure-insert-system-disc/#findComment-530105 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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