agent-squirrel Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 type: diskutil list to return a list of drive write down your os x drive number such as rdiskXsY where x and y are numbers i will use x and y in these instructions just substitute accordingly. fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX update f Y w y (as in yes not as in your drive letter) q reboot and see if that works Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82921-brazilmac-installation-problem-help/page/2/#findComment-588661 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDCohen Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 ok, I typed all that stuff in, and its rebooting, what should I see? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82921-brazilmac-installation-problem-help/page/2/#findComment-588671 Share on other sites More sharing options...
agent-squirrel Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 It should just boot into mac os x now you did press enter after each line and substitute the x's and y's ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82921-brazilmac-installation-problem-help/page/2/#findComment-588673 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDCohen Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 yeah, everything worked perfectly, it initiated the reboot by itself, and everything... but i still get a blank screen and a blinking cursor if it helps, my disk is: Disk1s2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82921-brazilmac-installation-problem-help/page/2/#findComment-588679 Share on other sites More sharing options...
agent-squirrel Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 ah crud try switching your os x boot drive back to windows one. Perhaps it has written the mbr there. If it all fails i have one last thing you can do but it may make XP un bootable without some serious tweaking on OS X's part. Il see what i can dig up for ya! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82921-brazilmac-installation-problem-help/page/2/#findComment-588682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDCohen Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 Well, I think I found out the problem... The whole hard drive sector went bad.. unfortunately, I'm not sure how to repair this... It won't let me re-format either... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82921-brazilmac-installation-problem-help/page/2/#findComment-588705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDCohen Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 Ok, so I just erased my Hard drive once again, and did a complete format of it of Mac OS X Journaled (extended) and installed os x 10.5, the install went perfectly, and I rebooted, hit F8, typed -s and it reloaded... then I went to the command prompt and typed in all the commands, and they went smoothly, but then it went to reboot... Question 1: Should I leave the disk in the drive, and boot the installation back up? Question 2: I took the disk out after the reboot, tried to reboot from the hard drive that Mac OS is on and all I get is a black screen with a cursor. What should I do? Thanks guys! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82921-brazilmac-installation-problem-help/page/2/#findComment-589533 Share on other sites More sharing options...
agent-squirrel Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Well you can configure the startup file tool. This is a sure fire way to boot mac os x however i have no idea of its dual boot functionality so your best off doing it on a standalone drive. Follow These instructions. Download this and extract the three files contained within onto a removable media of some variety and put them in a folder called bootfix. Make sure the name of the media is easy to remember and doesn't contain spaces or special characters. Insert the drive into your machine with mac os x on it. Open terminal from dvd installer menu. Activate the partition using the commands i gave you earlier. Then follow these to the letter! cd /Volumes/name_of_removable_media/bootfix/ ./dd if=/usr/standalone/i386/boot1h of=/dev/rdiskXsY bs=512 WHERE XsY IS THE DRIVE NUMBER FOR YOUR MAC OS X DRIVE umount /Volumes/name_of_Leo_drive ./startupfiletool -v /dev/rdiskXsY /usr/standalone/i386/boot WHERE XsY IS THE DRIVE NUMBER FOR YOUR MAC OS X DRIVE ./bless -device /dev/diskXsY -setboot -verbose WHERE XsY IS THE DRIVE NUMBER FOR YOUR MAC OS X DRIVE reboot Fingers crossed that should work! Hope it helps Agent-Squirrel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82921-brazilmac-installation-problem-help/page/2/#findComment-589799 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDCohen Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 And after I do the "bootfix" patch, I should restart the computer from my OSX hard drive and leopard should pop up to its desktop? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82921-brazilmac-installation-problem-help/page/2/#findComment-589968 Share on other sites More sharing options...
agent-squirrel Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 in theory yes! If that fails then i am truly stumped. EDIT: I empathise with your problem as i had it myself but if it boots to the grey apple with pin wheel then hangs, at least its something and i may be able to do more from there. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82921-brazilmac-installation-problem-help/page/2/#findComment-589974 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDCohen Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 I just rebooted from the unzipping of files on the usb drive named 123, and i got a message saying, Loading Darwin/x89 and it has a spaztic message that flickers saying "Can't find mach-kernel" what does this mean Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82921-brazilmac-installation-problem-help/page/2/#findComment-590047 Share on other sites More sharing options...
agent-squirrel Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Well if its booting from dvd just reboot and try again it meens that the disk is damaged. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82921-brazilmac-installation-problem-help/page/2/#findComment-590057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDCohen Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 Well, I finished, and I restarted, but unfortunately, I still got the blank screen, I'm going to try this again, because I think I might have typed a file in the wrong order... if i did that, this would have a big effect right? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82921-brazilmac-installation-problem-help/page/2/#findComment-590066 Share on other sites More sharing options...
agent-squirrel Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Ya, Typing it in the wrong order would basically just have it not work. No adverse effects but it just wont boot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82921-brazilmac-installation-problem-help/page/2/#findComment-590069 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDCohen Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 ahh, i give up for tonight, I boot from the hard-drive, and it gives me the error that it can't find the mach_kernel Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82921-brazilmac-installation-problem-help/page/2/#findComment-590087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
agent-squirrel Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 That may be because you have swapped the drives around multiple times. This will mess up the drive ordering the bios and the MBR ordering. So your bootloader is trying to boot off the wrong drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82921-brazilmac-installation-problem-help/page/2/#findComment-590261 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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