tacostick Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Sorry if this has already been asked -- can't find an answer around. So right now I have two options when starting up the computer: either boot without the install DVD and get a fun little blinking cursor ad infinitum; or, boot w/ DVD and use the old rd=disk0s1. Question is, what if I don't have access to my install DVD sometime? I've got a useless hard drive. Any way I can fix this without reinstalling Leopard? Maybe go into the install [iATKOS] and just do Darwin_Boot without installing the OS? Anyone else have this problem / solutions? thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80508-need-dvd-to-boot-mac/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Dawg Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Me too w/Kalyway 10.5.1, only need to have DVD in drive, bios set to boot cd drive Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80508-need-dvd-to-boot-mac/#findComment-571397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTR-33 Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Try running a GParted Live CD (linux partition utility) and check the flags on the boot drive. When I installed for some reason the installer didn't set the drive as bootable and I had to run GParted and set a boot flag. Power cycled and it was fine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80508-need-dvd-to-boot-mac/#findComment-571657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacostick Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 Can't use GParted or ubuntu live CD [any linux live cd, looks like] because of some bizarre Dell problem that results in it failing to boot. I do, however, have Hiren's BootCD, and tooled around in there for a while to no avail. Are you sure it's just a matter of setting the partition to bootable? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80508-need-dvd-to-boot-mac/#findComment-573267 Share on other sites More sharing options...
m0rf Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Got the same problem here, running KALYWAY. Every time i try to boot w/o the DVD it says: bdisk0 error and stops. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80508-need-dvd-to-boot-mac/#findComment-573577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacostick Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 Well would there be a way to put the darwin boot thing on a thumb drive? That is, after all, the only part of the dvd we need. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80508-need-dvd-to-boot-mac/#findComment-574156 Share on other sites More sharing options...
feriso Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 How about have a small windows install and use the chain0 (zero) boot method to boot into OSX? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80508-need-dvd-to-boot-mac/#findComment-575485 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tacostick Posted January 12, 2008 Author Share Posted January 12, 2008 wouldnt that require reinstalling OSX? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80508-need-dvd-to-boot-mac/#findComment-576803 Share on other sites More sharing options...
feriso Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 depends on whether you have a spare partition or spare HD? If so then no. u can install osx then windows on a seperate partition and then use chain0 to boot osx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80508-need-dvd-to-boot-mac/#findComment-576885 Share on other sites More sharing options...
andershack Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 I have a similar but different problem that I have found no mention of so far in the forum. I installed iATKOSv1.01r2 successfully. I can boot into OSX with the dvd in my IDE drive by using rd=disk0s2 (my osx partition is after my windows partition). When I boot without the dvd I successfully arrive at the Darwin bootloader screen and I'm presented with the proper options: my OSX partition by default and my windows partition above it, unhighlighted. If I arrow up to the windows partition and select it, windows boots properly. If, however, I select the OSX partition the screen redraws itself and nothing happens. *blink* Right back to the menu. This happens regardless of any arguments passed such as -v or -x. The partition is set active, I've checked the boot flag in gparted, I've edited com.apple.Boot.plist and set a kernel flag to rd=disk0s2, etc, etc. I have found a lot of posts about people see a blinking "_", but that's not my issue at all. Any takers? Edit: It seems that the boot files were not transferred during installation. There is no chain0, boot, boot1, or boot1h. So I copied those files and did the whole fdisk, dd, startupfiletool thing from the install disk. There were no error messages but the problem remains the same. No result. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/80508-need-dvd-to-boot-mac/#findComment-576988 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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