Ke0 Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 So I downloaded the vmare'd tiger-x86-flat.img file and DD'ed it to my 2nd harddrive. I go into bios and set that HDD as the boot drive. I rest and I get an error saying "Error loading Operating system." I don't even leave my black bootup screen. I've redownloaded the file from a different site and the same site, and I still get the error. I searched, but only found 1 other person describing my problem. No one reponded to him. My rig is a AMD64 3500+ MSI Neo2 Platinum 1GB Crucial Ballistix eVGA 6800 80GB HDD (Windows) 60GB HDD (OSX) I checked the support page @ the wiki, and all of my hardware is fully supported. Anyone care to take a stab at this Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/826-error-loading-operating-system/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ke0 Posted August 21, 2005 Author Share Posted August 21, 2005 So much for help no one has a clue? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/826-error-loading-operating-system/#findComment-4923 Share on other sites More sharing options...
toast Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 go to administrative tools in the control panel and open computer management. click on storage and then disk management and right click on the drive you want to install to and delete any partitions. then try again Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/826-error-loading-operating-system/#findComment-4927 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ke0 Posted August 22, 2005 Author Share Posted August 22, 2005 That sorta helped, it reads the HDD, but now it says unknown partition or something like that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/826-error-loading-operating-system/#findComment-5090 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightballx Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 OK, Your MBR has most likely been corrupted, this has happened before. what you have to do withoput losing any data is to get a Gentoo Linux Minimal Live CD, it says install but it wont install it will just out you at a linux prompt, and then use cfdisk select the bootable partition (And just toggle on and off if the bootable partition is already selected as Boot, and then go along to the Write option and and make sure it says that its written, dont accept Written But Couldnt Re-Read as it wont work when you reboot. HTH, need anymore help... just PM me. -=eightballx=- Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/826-error-loading-operating-system/#findComment-5382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ke0 Posted August 22, 2005 Author Share Posted August 22, 2005 Thanks eightballx, when I get off work I'll try it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/826-error-loading-operating-system/#findComment-5422 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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