Eric.C Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Hello, I've done everything I could think of...I tried GParted, but that doesnt seem to do anything (when I boot to Gparted, its as if I didn't do anything at all, still the cursor) and I've tried to use EFI emulation. But my clean disk images are locked up in that HFS+ external HDD, and I'm on Vista 64 (the only install disk other than Ubuntu I have)... I can't use Ubuntu cuz it won't recognize ANY blank CD I try, it always says plz put in a blank disk...I have a proj that's on the 7th, and I backed up the iWeb files that I need, but I need to finish it so I can hand it in on Monday...plz I rly need this...I hope someone can help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric.C Posted December 29, 2007 Author Share Posted December 29, 2007 Well, I managed to get GParted working, added the boot flag, but the thing still won't boot (stuck at blinking cursor), any help? Here's what I tried so far: Boot MBR won't boot Boot Macbook booted to GParted, got the GUI, messed up colors and contrast, marked partition for boot Boot MBR *again after making partition for boot Booted, but with command line (and I don't know what to do in it...) btw, I've read somewhere that there should be 2 partitions, 1 for EFI, 1 for the OS, I only saw 1 partition in GParted also, I found this makeactive command the 2nd time i booted to MBR, but I couldnt figure out how to use it here's my system specs if anyone needs it DVD: iATKOS v1.0i Processor: Core 2 Duo E6600 Mobo: Asus P5B RAM: 2GB kingston DDR2 677 HDD WD 320GB Gfx card: MSI GeForce 7600GS 256MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric.C Posted December 29, 2007 Author Share Posted December 29, 2007 o yay! I got it to boot, I just booted tothe brazilmac dvd, then left it to run when it says press enter to install OS X, then it decided to boot off of my HDD for some reason ...anyone knows how I can get it to boot without the DVD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 You don't have PC EFI installed right. Do you have a USB stick/key? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric.C Posted December 29, 2007 Author Share Posted December 29, 2007 no its not PC EFI and yes I do have a old 512MB USB key Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric.C Posted December 30, 2007 Author Share Posted December 30, 2007 so I answered your questions, but what were you proposing when you asked that question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts