flare389 Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 I wanted to upgrade to a 500 gb SATA hard drive from the 80 gb ide my copy of Leopard (brazilmac) is currently installed on. I cloned the hard drive using carbon copy cloner and when I went to boot, the cloned hard drive just stops on a blinking cursor in DOS. Leopard works just fine on the 80 gb hard drive, in fact I'm using it right now. Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
agent-squirrel Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 the cloned drive needs to be set to active. Thsi can be done numerous ways. Try googling it. EDIT: For the record its not DOS. DOS is an operating system in its own right. Its simply the front end of your system telling you it ahs nothing to do. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-588715 Share on other sites More sharing options...
flare389 Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 Sorry, I can't seem to find anything on google about it. Maybe I just don't know what I'm looking for. If anyone could help point me in the right direction that'd be great. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-588732 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SticMAC™ Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Try GUID or EFi or FORMAT AND MAKE HARDDRIVE BOOTABLE sticMAN Sorry, I can't seem to find anything on google about it. Maybe I just don't know what I'm looking for. If anyone could help point me in the right direction that'd be great. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-588834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
flare389 Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 Where do you go to make hard drive bootable? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-589163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
real_sinjon Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 One way to set the drive active would be to get hold of Acronis Disk Director Suite and make a boot cd. You would need a Windows machine to do this. Then you just boot from the cd and can set the partition as required. You also get a boot manager which might help, but I'd stay away from that as it installs to the partition and will overwrite your Darwin bootloader or whatever. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-589750 Share on other sites More sharing options...
agent-squirrel Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Or in fact you can use the terminal to do it. Boot up your mac os x dvd on the machine you cant boot. Open terminal and type as follows. diskutil list this will give you a list of drives. Make note of the leopard drive number. i will use X and Y in these instructions substitute accordingly. fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX update f Y w y (dont substitute this one just type y) q reboot That will make that drive the active partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-589808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
flare389 Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 Or in fact you can use the terminal to do it. Boot up your mac os x dvd on the machine you cant boot. Open terminal and type as follows. diskutil list this will give you a list of drives. Make note of the leopard drive number. i will use X and Y in these instructions substitute accordingly. fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX update f Y w y (dont substitute this one just type y) q reboot That will make that drive the active partition. Tried this twice and it still doesn't get past blinking cursor on system bootup. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-589908 Share on other sites More sharing options...
flare389 Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 Just to clarify what I have done. I have had a working version of Leopard running on my PC for the past month or so. I wanted to upgrade from a 80 gb IDE to a 500 gb SATA. So I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my drive. When I go to boot the cloned drive it gets stuck at a blinking cursor. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-590129 Share on other sites More sharing options...
clv101 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 I have had a working version of Leopard running on my PC for the past month or so. I wanted to upgrade from a 80 gb IDE to a 500 gb SATA. I want to do just this - well, go from an old 200GB SATA drive to a new 500GB SATA drive. How do I do it? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-617897 Share on other sites More sharing options...
amedias Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 I also have same problem, even after setting partition as active both with acronis and using steps as above in fdisk :-( can anyone suggest anything or provide simple howto. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-619811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tle88 Posted February 12, 2008 Share Posted February 12, 2008 Hmmm... Boot dvd and in terminal: diskutil list fdisk -e /dev/rdisk0 <- if your disk number is 0 p f 2 <- if your disk use guid = second partition has system. mbr = 1 write yes exit reboot disk out from dvd machine. === Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-620761 Share on other sites More sharing options...
clv101 Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 Has anyone done this successfully? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-624388 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodecowboy Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 I also want to know if anyone has done this successfully? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-832869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach-os Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 my experiences: sometimes you have also to reinstall efi with a proper bootloader and to set the disk active with fdisk. like here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=75928 if you have an other os x install on your machine, you could use also copycatx to clone it - works perfect without any problems. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-833248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
karaakeha1 Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 my experiences: sometimes you have also to reinstall efi with a proper bootloader and to set the disk active with fdisk. like here http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=75928 After cloning Drive with CCC reinstallation of EFI ( Chameleon or EFIv8) is MUST I have GUID Retail DVD install , I just reinstall EFI Chameleon EFI with installer .It is bootable Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-833254 Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach-os Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 After cloning Drive with CCC reinstallation of EFI ( Chameleon or EFIv8) is MUST I have GUID Retail DVD install , I just reinstall EFI Chameleon EFI with installer .It is bootable seems that "sometimes" was wrong - can´t remember after testing too many clone-tools Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-833274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodecowboy Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 What worked for me was using SuperDuper to clone to an external USB drive and then installing the Chameleon bootloader. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-833375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Here are couple of notes related to solving GUID/Chameleon booting problems. (1) These systems can have problems with drives that have multiple partitions, try reformatting your drive to a single partition (this solved my problem). (2) As of Chameleon 1.0.11, "case-sensitive" versions of HFS+ are apparently not supported, so again try reformatting to the default HFS+ (journaled). Note, a version of boot1h for HFS+ is available for manual use is supposed to be included with Chameleon 1.0.12: http://tinyurl.com/56xc7w http://tinyurl.com/5tk233 (3) A special version of the "fdisk" command comes with Chameleon, try to use that one instead (especially for dual booting with Vista). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-879032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fyrekrig Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Having similar issues trying to get drive cloned with CCC bootable. Find the instructions on EFI and Chameleon bootloader a little bit confusing as the text says that everything will be OVERWRITTEN! Wouldn't the clone be gone then? Also tried CopyCatX if you have an other os x install on your machine, you could use also copycatx to clone it - works perfect without any problems but when I try to copy to the external USB drive I get the message "Unable to unmount" Tried to unmount in Disk Utilty which seem to unmount but CopyCatX is still "Unable to unmount" Only way I have been able to successfully make bootable clones are by using a bootable DOS CD with Norton Ghost and the image on a FAT32 partition. However with this method the source and target partitiones have to be EXACTLY the same (same number of cylinders). So no resizing possible! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-879265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach-os Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 try it in terminal with diskutil unmount diskXsY it doesn´t matter what tool you are using - the disk has to be unmounted. later on I have to clone a disk. will try it with copycatx using usb. let´s see what my results are EDIT: used copycatx to clone to a usb connected disk - absolutely no problem! must be something wrong with your system.tried it on my gigabyte EP45 and my asus PW5.working on both! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-879473 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Methanoid Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Is there a simple way to pop EFI or CHameleon onto a partition which isnt booting? I have a backup of a nice ready configured retail install that I have restored to a partition on my MBR formatted drive. I want to be able to make it bootable. I'd be laughing if I could boot the Chameleon installer but its a DMG file so needs to be mounted on a working Mac install. Chicken and egg!!!! Ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-1168067 Share on other sites More sharing options...
starobrno1 Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 I just did this yesterday and this is what I did: First ofcourse I copied the stuff back from my ccc usb drive to my internal Sata drive, found out it did´nt boot so I scratched my head a little and decided to boot from my 132 cd. This worked and when I had my Sata drive up running again I downloaded latest chameleon installed it then run osx86tools, done. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/82947-carbon-copy-cloner-harddrive-wont-boot/#findComment-1168109 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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