stormlight Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Is it possible on a hackingtosh install to boot from a toh dvd and choose to restore from time machine? I want to give 10.5.2 a shot but want to easily restore will it make a perfect image that will boot? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87337-use-tohkaly-dvd-to-restore-with-time-machine-after-bad-1052/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrdaewoo Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 I let the 10.5.2 update install from Software Update knowing that it may hose my system up, but did a ghost image backup prior to. I also was expecting it to crash so I could become familiar with restoring from a Time Machine backup on the DVD. The restore of 82GB that I had used took about 35 mins to say, but I didn't have EFI installed upon reboot and just hd the "blinking cursor of confusion". I tried again by restarting (DVD took a while to finally load) and formatted the HD as GUID, unmounted, inserted my flash drive, installed EFI v8, then went to Time Machine again and it looks like it will just erase the partition and go about its' business. Still no luck as I got the BCoC! So I went back into the DVD boot,waited like 10 mins, and finally reinstalled EFI back onto the HD and gave it a restart. It worked but slowly and in the end I had a bunch of errors. This resulted from my purposing trying out different configurations and installing {censored} in an attempt to "see what happens". I would definitely try installing to another drive if you could, if not then at least do a FULL backup using Ghost or some other utility if you can. If you want to jus blow it away, then make sure that you backup your apps and all personal data and start all over. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87337-use-tohkaly-dvd-to-restore-with-time-machine-after-bad-1052/#findComment-621470 Share on other sites More sharing options...
indee Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Hi, I suggest that you create an image file from the Diskutility once you boot from the 10.5.1 install CD. and dump it on the external USB HDD. Try to dump this image on the actual HDD again, pls note you will have blinking cursor problem which you can fix using the steps under "The Bootfix patch" here. You can also create the sparse image (these images can be updated like you can have weekly schedule to update the image) using carbon copy or Super Duper. Search google for this. Hope this helps! Let us know if you are successful in upgrading to 10.5.2 Indee Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/87337-use-tohkaly-dvd-to-restore-with-time-machine-after-bad-1052/#findComment-621549 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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